Global analysis of WRKY transcription factor superfamily in setaria identifies potential candidates involved in abiotic stress signaling

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan ^a   Bonthala, Venkata S ^a   Khandelwal, Rohit ^a   Jaishankar, Jananee ^a   Shweta, Shweta ^a   Nawaz, Kashif ^a   Prasad, Manoj ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Comparative mapping; Expression profiling; Setaria italica; Setaria viridis; Stress signaling; WRKY transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947431122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00910     Document Type: Article

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