Soybean miR172c targets the repressive AP2 transcription factor NNC1 to activate ENOD40 expression and regulate nodule initiation

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4782-4801

  Wang, Youning ^a   Wang, Lixiang ^a,b   Zou, Yanmin ^a   Cai, Zhaoming ^a,b   Zhang, Senlei ^a,b   Zhao, Fang ^a   Tian, Yinping ^a   Jiang, Qiong ^a,b   Ferguson, Brett J ^c   Gresshoff, Peter M ^c   Li, Xia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM;

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NODULATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84961288045     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.131607     Document Type: Article

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