Regulation of Transcription in Plants provides a broad review of the regulation of transcription in plants, introducing the key elements, the way in which it works in practice, and the potential within plant biotechnology.

Contents

1. General Transcription Factors and the Core Promoter: Ancient Roots
2. Transcription Factors of Arabidopsis and Rice: A Genomic Perspective
3. Chromatin-Associated Architectural HMGA and HMGB Proteins Assist Transcription Factor Function
4. Histone Modifications and Transcription in Plants
5. Chromatin Remodeling and Histone Variants in Transcriptional Regulation and in Maintaining DNA Methylation
6. Matrix Attachment Regions and Transcriptional Gene Silencing
7. Polymerase I Transcription
8. Transcription of Plastid Genes
9. Control of Flowering Time
10. Combinatorial Control of Floral Organ Identity by MADS-Domain Transcription Factors
11. Networks of Transcriptional Regulation Underlying Plant Defense Responses Toward Phytopathogens
12. Temperature-Regulated Gene Expression
13. Applications of Inducible Transcription in Plant Research and Biotechnology
14. Modulation of Transcriptional Networks in Crop Plants

Index

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