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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Luis Lopez Molina
PROVIDER: E-TABM-729 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Plant & cell physiology 20091218 2
The stress phytohormone ABA inhibits the developmental transition taking the mature embryo in the dry seed towards a young seedling. ABA also induces the accumulation of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor ABA-insensitive 5 (ABI5) which, apart from blocking endosperm rupture, also protects the embryo by stimulating the expression of late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) genes that conferred osmotolerance during seed maturation. It is unknown whether ABA recruits additional embryonic ...[more]