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The plant B3 superfamily

Kankshita Swaminathan1, Kevin Peterson, Thomas Jack

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; Present address: Department of Crop Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.

Trends in Plant Science
|November 7, 2008
PubMed
Summary

The B3 superfamily, a plant-specific gene family, includes well-known auxin response factor (ARF) and LAV families, alongside less-studied RAV and REM families. This review focuses on the phylogenetic characterization and known functions of B3 genes in Arabidopsis and rice.

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