Regulation of the Arabidopsis CBF regulon by a complex low-temperature regulatory network

Plant Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-207

  Park, Sunchung ^a   Lee, Chin Mei ^a,b,c   Doherty, Colleen J ^a,b,d   Gilmour, Sarah J ^a   Kim, Yongsig ^a   Thomashow, Michael F ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; CBF regulatory pathway; freezing tolerance; low temperature regulatory network

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPLEX NETWORKS; FREEZING; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; FREEZING TOLERANCE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; REGULATORY NETWORK; REGULATORY PATHWAY; TRUNCATED VERSIONS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REGULON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD TEMPERATURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; REGULON;

EID: 84926523633     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12796     Document Type: Article

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