Transposable Elements Contribute to Activation of Maize Genes in Response to Abiotic Stress

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Makarevitch, Irina ^a,b   Waters, Amanda J ^b   West, Patrick T ^b   Stitzer, Michelle ^c   Hirsch, Candice N ^b   Ross Ibarra, Jeffrey ^c   Springer, Nathan M ^b  

^a HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAT STRESS; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEEDLING; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; SEEDLINGS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84924405848     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004915     Document Type: Article

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