PtrWRKY73, a salicylic acid-inducible poplar WRKY transcription factor, is involved in disease resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 831-841

  Duan, Yanjiao ^a   Jiang, Yuanzhong ^a   Ye, Shenglong ^a   Karim, Abdul ^a   Ling, Zhengyi ^a   He, Yunqiu ^a   Yang, Siqi ^a   Luo, Keming ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Pathogen; Populus; SA; Transcription factor; WRKY

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POPULUS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REPORTER GENE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SALICYLIC ACID; SEEDLINGS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84939991106     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1745-5     Document Type: Article

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