Inference of transcriptional networks in Arabidopsis through conserved noncoding sequence analysis

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2729-2745

  de Velde, Jan Van ^a,b   Heyndrickx, Ken S ^a,b   Vandepoele, Klaas ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; SYNTENY;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84907307297     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.127001     Document Type: Article

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