Importance of mediator complex in the regulation and integration of diverse signaling pathways in plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Samanta, Subhasis ^a   Thakur, Jitendra K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Arabidopsis; Defense signaling; Development; Mediator complex; Rice; RNA polymerase II; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942861651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00757     Document Type: Review

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