Two recently duplicated maize NAC transcription factor paralogs are induced in response to Colletotrichum graminicola infection

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Voitsik, Anna Maria ^a   Muench, Steffen ^b   Deising, Holger B ^b   Voll, Lars M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotic stress response; Colletotrichum graminicola; DNA binding element; Maize; NAC domain; NAC transcription factor; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ASCOMYCOTA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA GRAMINICOLA; ZEA MAYS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84878248646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-85     Document Type: Article

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