Alternative Splicing Confers a Dual Role in Polar Auxin Transport and Drought Stress Tolerance to the Major Facilitator Superfamily Transporter ZIFL1
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.113.250312
Subject(s) - major facilitator superfamily , biology , transporter , arabidopsis , facilitator , arabidopsis thaliana , alternative splicing , auxin , gene , genetics , genome , superfamily , computational biology , exon , mutant , political science , law
Major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters constitute a major class of transporter in all organisms. They are prevalent in plants; the Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains over 120 genes predicted to encode MFS transporters. However, relatively few have been characterized, such as nitrate
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