B-GATA transcription factors – Insights into their structure, regulation, and role in plant development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Behringer, Carina ^a   Schwechheimer, Claus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

B GATA; CGA1; GATA; GNC; GNL; HAN domain; HANABA TARANU; LLM domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923238603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00090     Document Type: Review

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