Antagonistic roles of abscisic acid and cytokinin during response to nitrogen depletion in oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica expand the evolutionary breadth of phytohormone function

Plant Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-68

  Lu, Yandu ^a   Tarkowska, Danuše ^b   Turečková, Veronika ^b   Luo, Tingwei ^c   Xin, Yi ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Wang, Qintao ^a   Jiao, Nianzhi ^c   Strnad, Miroslav ^b   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Antagonistic synergy; Cell cycle progression; Cytokinin; Nannochloropsis oceanica; Phytohormone evolution; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; HORMONES; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ANTAGONISTIC SYNERGY; CELL-CYCLE PROGRESSION; CYTOKININ; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCEANICA; PHYTOHORMONE EVOLUTION; STRESS RESPONSE;

ALGAE;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCEANICA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SP.; STREPTOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ABSCISIC ACID; CYTOKININ; KINETIN; N-BENZYLADENINE; NITROGEN; PHYTOHORMONE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAMENOPILE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ABSCISIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL CYCLE; CYTOKININS; KINETIN; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAMENOPILES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84924808376     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12615     Document Type: Article

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