Omics approaches toward defining the comprehensive abscisic acid signaling network in plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1043-1052

  Yoshida, Takuya ^a   Mogami, Junro ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Arabidopsis; Omics studies; Protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C); Pyrabactin resistance 1 (PYR) PYR1 like (PYL) Regulatory components of ABA receptor (RCAR); Sucrose non fermenting 1 (SNF1) related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2)

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ABSCISIC ACID; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2C;

METABOLISM; PLANT; PROCEDURES; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84930716174     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv060     Document Type: Review

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