An ethylene response-related factor, GbERF1-like, from Gossypium barbadense improves resistance to Verticillium dahliae via activating lignin synthesis

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 305-318

  Guo, Weifeng ^a,b   Jin, Li ^a   Miao, Yuhuan ^a   He, Xin ^a   Hu, Qin ^a   Guo, Kai ^a   Zhu, Longfu ^a   Zhang, Xianlong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b the Production Engineering Laboratory of Characteristic Fruit Trees in Southern Xinjiang of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps   (China)

Author keywords

Ethylene; GbERF1 like; Gossypium barbadense; Lignin; Phenylpropanoid; Verticillium dahliae

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIGNIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTICILLIUM;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GOSSYPIUM; LIGNIN; PLANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTICILLIUM;

EID: 84960443828     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0467-6     Document Type: Article

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