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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Pierre Broun
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1071 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Broun Pierre P Poindexter Patricia P Osborne Erin E Jiang Cai-Zhong CZ Riechmann José Luis JL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040322 13
Epicuticular wax forms a layer of hydrophobic material on plant aerial organs, which constitutes a protective barrier between the plant and its environment. We report here the identification of WIN1, an Arabidopsis thaliana ethylene response factor-type transcription factor, which can activate wax deposition in overexpressing plants. We constitutively expressed WIN1 in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, and found that leaf epidermal wax accumulation was up to 4.5-fold higher in these plants than in ...[more]