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Genome-wide analysis of endogenous abscisic acid-mediated transcription in dry and imbibed seeds of Arabidopsis using tiling arrays

  1. Masanori Okamoto1,
  2. Kiyoshi Tatematsu2,
  3. Akihiro Matsui1,
  4. Taeko Morosawa1,
  5. Junko Ishida1,
  6. Maho Tanaka1,
  7. Takaho A. Endo3,
  8. Yoshiki Mochizuki3,
  9. Tetsuro Toyoda3,
  10. Yuji Kamiya1,
  11. Kazuo Shinozaki1,
  12. Eiji Nambara4,
  13. Motoaki Seki1,5,*

Article first published online: 20 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04135.x

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Volume 62, Issue 1, pages 39–51, April 2010

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Okamoto, M., Tatematsu, K., Matsui, A., Morosawa, T., Ishida, J., Tanaka, M., Endo, T. A., Mochizuki, Y., Toyoda, T., Kamiya, Y., Shinozaki, K., Nambara, E. and Seki, M. (2010), Genome-wide analysis of endogenous abscisic acid-mediated transcription in dry and imbibed seeds of Arabidopsis using tiling arrays. The Plant Journal, 62: 39–51. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04135.x

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  1. 1

    RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

  2. 2

    National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan

  3. 3

    RIKEN Bioinformatics and Systems Engineering Division, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

  4. 4

    Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada

  5. 5

    Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 244-0813, Japan

* For correspondence (fax +81 45 503 9586; e-mail mseki@psc.riken.jp).

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  1. Issue published online: 29 MAR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 20 JAN 2010
  3. Received 27 August 2009; revised 14 December 2009; accepted 16 December 2009; published online 16 February 2010.

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