ROP/RAC GTPases

Annual Plant Reviews: Intracellular Signaling in Plants

Volumn 33, Issue , 2009, Pages 64-99

  Fu, Ying ^a,b   Kawasaki, Tsutomu ^c   Shimamoto, Ko ^c   Yang, Zhenbiao ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Cytoskeleton; Defense; G proteins; Hormones; Small GTPases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947809506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302387.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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