Genome-wide analysis of the WRKY gene family in cotton

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1103-1121

  Dou, Lingling ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohong ^a,b   Pang, Chaoyou ^b   Song, Meizhen ^b   Wei, Hengling ^b   Fan, Shuli ^b   Yu, Shuxun ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Cotton; Development; Expression profile; WRKY transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WRKY PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ALGA; ARTICLE; DROUGHT STRESS; EUDICOT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM RAIMONDII; LEAF SENESCENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MONOCOT; MOSS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT FIBER; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; WRKY GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTES; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM RAIMONDII; LYCOPODIOPHYTA;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GOSSYPIUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84922481163     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-014-0872-y     Document Type: Article

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