ATAF1 transcription factor directly regulates abscisic acid biosynthetic gene NCED3 in Arabidopsis thaliana

FEBS Open Bio

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 321-327

  Jensen, Michael Krogh ^a   Lindemose, Søren ^a   Masi, Federico de ^b   Reimer, Julia J ^c   Nielsen, Michael ^a   Perera, Venura ^d   Workman, Chris T ^b   Turck, Franziska ^c   Grant, Murray R ^d   Mundy, John ^a   Petersen, Morten ^a   Skriver, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid biosynthesis; Arabidopsis; DNA binding; NAC transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; PROTEIN ATAF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BINDING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; NCED3 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84882565163     PISSN: 22115463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fob.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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