The low energy signaling network

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Tomé, Filipa ^a   Nägele, Thomas ^b   Adamo, Mattia ^c   Garg, Abhroop ^d   Marco Llorca, Carles ^d   Nukarinen, Ella ^b   Pedrotti, Lorenzo ^e   Peviani, Alessia ^f   Simeunovic, Andrea ^b   Tatkiewicz, Anna ^g   Tomar, Monika ^f   Gamm, Magdalena ^f  

^a Bayer Cropscience Belgium   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g ETSI MontesTechnical University of Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

bZIP; Energy signaling; Metabolism; SnRK1; Stress; T6P; TOR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979737378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00353     Document Type: Review

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