Genome-wide identification of WRKY family genes and their response to cold stress in Vitis vinifera

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Lina ^a,c   Zhu, Wei ^a,c   Fang, Linchuan ^a,c   Sun, Xiaoming ^a,c   Su, Lingye ^b,c   Liang, Zhenchang ^b   Wang, Nian ^a,b   Londo, Jason P ^d   Li, Shaohua ^a,b   Xin, Haiping ^a,b  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Grape Genetics Research Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic and abiotic stress; Cold stress; Grapevine; WRKY transcription factor family

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD; CROSS BREEDING; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VITIS;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VITIS;

EID: 84899974160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-103     Document Type: Article

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