Maize LAZY1 mediates shoot gravitropism and inflorescence development through regulating auxin transport, auxin signaling, and light response

Plant Physiology

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1306-1322

  Dong, Zhaobin ^a   Jiang, Chuan ^b   Chen, Xiaoyang ^a   Zhang, Tao ^c   Ding, Lian ^a   Song, Weibin ^a   Luo, Hongbing ^d   Lai, Jinsheng ^a   Chen, Huabang ^e   Liu, Renyi ^f   Zhang, Xiaolan ^a   Jin, Weiwei ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ORYZA SATIVA; ZEA MAYS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFLORESCENCE; LIGHT; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GRAVITROPISM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; INFLORESCENCE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84886786976     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.227314     Document Type: Article

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