The large soybean (Glycine max) WRKY TF family expanded by segmental duplication events and subsequent divergent selection among subgroups

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yin, Guangjun ^a   Xu, Hongliang ^b   Xiao, Shuyang ^a   Qin, Yajuan ^a   Li, Yaxuan ^a   Yan, Yueming ^a   Hu, Yingkao ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX; TRACHEOPHYTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOYBEAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS, GENOMIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84884891017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-148     Document Type: Article

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