ABI4 Regulates Primary Seed Dormancy by Regulating the Biogenesis of Abscisic Acid and Gibberellins in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Shu, Kai ^a,b   Zhang, Huawei ^a   Wang, Shengfu ^a   Chen, Mingluan ^c   Wu, Yaorong ^a   Tang, Sanyuan ^a   Liu, Chunyan ^a   Feng, Yuqi ^c   Cao, Xiaofeng ^a   Xie, Qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; GIBBERELLIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COTYLEDON; CYP707A1 GENE; CYP707A2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEED DORMANCY; SEED STORAGE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD TYPE;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; GIBBERELLINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEED DORMANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84879654876     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003577     Document Type: Article

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