Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding proteins, positively involved in abscisic acid signalling, require a transcription repressor, WRKY40, to balance their function

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 5443-5456

  Liu, Rui ^a   Xu, Yan Hong ^a,b   Jiang, Shang Chuan ^a   Lu, Kai ^a   Lu, Yan Fen ^a   Feng, Xiu Jing ^a   Wu, Zhen ^a   Liang, Shan ^a   Yu, Yong Tao ^a   Wang, Xiao Fang ^a   Zhang, Da Peng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid signalling; Arabidopsis thaliana; light harvesting chlorophyll a b binding protein; post germination growth; seed germination; WRKY40 transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CAB2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYLL BINDING PROTEIN; GUN5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LHCB4.1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LHCB5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LHCB6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LYASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WRKY40 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ABSCISIC ACID SIGNALLING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; LIGHT-HARVESTING CHLOROPHYLL A/B-BINDING PROTEIN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT SEED; POST-GERMINATION GROWTH; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WRKY40 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR.;

ABSCISIC ACID SIGNALLING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LIGHT-HARVESTING CHLOROPHYLL A/B-BINDING PROTEIN; POST-GERMINATION GROWTH; SEED GERMINATION; WRKY40 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR.;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYLL BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; LYASES; MUTATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84891531477     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert307     Document Type: Article

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