Identification and analysis of MKK and MPK gene families in canola (Brassica napus L.)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liang, Wanwan ^a   Yang, Bo ^a   Yu, Bao Jun ^a   Zhou, Zili ^a   Li, Cui ^a   Jia, Ming ^a   Sun, Yun ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a   Wu, Feifei ^a   Zhang, Hanfeng ^a   Wang, Boya ^a   Deyholos, Michael K ^b   Jiang, Yuan Qing ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; Brassica napus; MKK; MPK; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; WRKY

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OXALIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MKK GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MPK GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; RAPESEED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BRASSICA NAPUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; EUKARYOTA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 84878696345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-392     Document Type: Article

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