A novel protective function for cytokinin in the light stress response is mediated by the ARABIDOPSIS HISTIDINE KINASE2 and ARABIDOPSIS HISTIDINE KINASE3 receptors

Plant Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1470-1483

  Cortleven, Anne ^a   Nitschke, Silvia ^a   Klaumünzer, Marion ^a   AbdElgawad, Hamada ^b   Asard, Han ^b   Grimm, Bernhard ^c   Riefler, Michael ^a   Schmülling, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARR1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOKININ; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOKININS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN KINASES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84897589007     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.224667     Document Type: Article

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