The molecular circuitry of brassinosteroid signaling

New Phytologist

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 522-540

  Belkhadir, Youssef ^a   Jaillais, Yvon ^b  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Brassinosteroid; Crosstalk; Growth immunity tradeoff; Light signaling; Photomorphogenesis; Phytohormone; Plant growth and development; Receptor kinase

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SIGNALING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRADE-OFF;

BRASSINOSTEROID; PHYTOHORMONE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRASSINOSTEROIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84925259358     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13269     Document Type: Article

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