A review of auxin response factors (ARFs) in plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Li, Si Bei ^a   Xie, Zong Zhou ^a   Hu, Chun Gen ^a   Zhang, Jin Zhi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A type I II phox and bem1p (PB1); Arabidopsis; ARF; Auxin; Auxin response DNA elements; DBD domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958528901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00047     Document Type: Article

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