The interacting MYB75 and KNAT7 transcription factors modulate secondary cell wall deposition both in stems and seed coat in Arabidopsis

Planta

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1199-1211

  Bhargava, Apurva ^a,b   Ahad, Abdul ^b   Wang, Shucai ^b,c   Mansfield, Shawn D ^b   Haughn, George W ^b   Douglas, Carl J ^b   Ellis, Brian E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inflorescence stem; Lignin; Mucilage; Protein protein interaction; Secondary cell wall; Seed coat; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT STEMS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84876733023     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1821-9     Document Type: Article

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