supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2006CB100100);the National Program of Transgenic Plant Research of China (Grant No.2009ZX08009-025B)
The plant-specific NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2,and CUC2) transcription factors have a regulatory function in developmental processes and stress responses. Notably a group of NAC members named NTLs (NTM1-Like) are membrane-tethe...
supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (Grant Nos.2006CB101601 and 2007CB108801);Project 985 of Minzu University of China,and the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to University (Grant No.B08044)
The protein kinase AtMPK3,a component of the MAP kinase cascade,plays an important role in stress signal transduction in plant cells. To clarify how AtMPK3 is regulated at the transcriptional level in response to vari...
The authors thank ProfMary Lou Guerinot (Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire) for providing IRT1 peptide antibody and for the critical reading of the manuscript. We are also grateful to Drs Zhentao Lin and Yongfu Fu (Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing) for providing the BiFC assay system and technical supporting. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos, 30530460 and 30521001) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant nos, 2005cb20904 and 2006AA 10A 105) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant no. KSCX2-YW-N- 001) as well as by the Harvest Plus-China Program.
Iron is an essential element for plant growth and development. Iron homeostasis in plants is tightly regulated at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional level. Several bHLH transcription factors involved in iron...