Group VII ethylene response factors coordinate oxygen and nitric oxide signal transduction and stress responses in plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-31

  Gibbs, Daniel J ^a   Conde, Jorge Vicente ^b   Berckhan, Sophie ^b   Prasad, Geeta ^b   Mendiondo, Guillermina M ^b   Holdsworth, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEOSTASIS; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEOLYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84940902202     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00338     Document Type: Article

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