Tobacco transcription factor NtWRKY12 interacts with TGA2.2 in vitro and in vivo

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Van Verk, Marcel C ^a   Neeleman, Lyda ^a   Bol, John F ^a   Linthorst, Huub J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NPR1; NtWRKY12; Plant defense; PR 1a; Protein protein interaction; Salicylic acid; Signal transduction; TGA2.2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884318348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00032     Document Type: Article

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