A wheat CCAAT box-binding transcription factor increases the grain yield of wheat with less fertilizer input

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 411-423

  Qu, Baoyuan ^a   He, Xue ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhao, Yanyan ^a   Teng, Wan ^a   Shao, An ^a   Zhao, Xueqiang ^a   Ma, Wenying ^a   Wang, Junyi ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Li, Zhensheng ^a   Tong, Yiping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

FERTILIZER; MICRORNA; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHORUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BINDING SITE; DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; SHOOT; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FERTILIZERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84921978269     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.246959     Document Type: Article

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