A WRKY Transcription Factor Recruits the SYG1-Like Protein SHB1 to Activate Gene Expression and Seed Cavity Enlargement

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Xiaojun ^a   Li, Wei ^a,b   Zhou, Yun ^a,c   Ni, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHB1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; IKU2 GENE; MINI3 GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; POLLINATION; PROMOTER REGION; SEED CAVITY ENLARGEMENT; SEED DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84875993019     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003347     Document Type: Article

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