Discovery of WRKY transcription factors through transcriptome analysis and characterization of a novel methyl jasmonate-inducible PqWRKY1 gene from Panax quinquefolius

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 269-277

  Sun, Yongzhen ^a   Niu, Yunyun ^a   Xu, Jiang ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Luo, Hongmei ^a   Zhu, Yingjie ^a   Liu, Mingzhu ^b   Wu, Qiong ^a,c   Song, Jingyuan ^a   Sun, Chao ^a   Chen, Shilin ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUILIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Osmotic stress; Panax quinquefolius; Transcription factor; WRKY

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GINSENOSIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; OSMOTIC STRESS; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS; PLANT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS; WRKY;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; OSMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; PANAX GINSENG; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS;

EID: 84880624203     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-013-0323-1     Document Type: Article

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