Growth-Regulating Factors (GRFs): A Small Transcription Factor Family with Important Functions in Plant Biology

Molecular Plant

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 998-1010

  Omidbakhshfard, Mohammad Amin ^a,b   Proost, Sebastian ^a,b   Fujikura, Ushio ^a   Mueller Roeber, Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

abiotic stress; chromatin remodeling; flower development; growth regulation; leaf development; miRNA

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

FLOWERS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84943454359     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.01.013     Document Type: Review

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