Identification of ERF genes in peanuts and functional analysis of AhERF008 and AhERF019 in abiotic stress response

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 467-477

  Wan, Liyun ^a   Wu, Yanshan ^a   Huang, Jiaquan ^a   Dai, Xiaofeng ^a   Lei, Yong ^a   Yan, Liying ^a   Jiang, Huifang ^a   Zhang, Juncheng ^b   Varshney, Rajeev K ^c   Liao, Boshou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

Author keywords

ERF family; Gene function; Peanut; Phylogeny; Plant development; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE FACTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ERF008 GENE; ERF019 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAVITROPISM; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEANUT; PLANT GENE; PLANT RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SALT STRESS; SOYBEAN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SALT TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GLYCINE MAX;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SALT-TOLERANCE; SOYBEANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84906350231     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-014-0381-4     Document Type: Article

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