A Quartet of PIF bHLH Factors Provides a Transcriptionally Centered Signaling Hub That Regulates Seedling Morphogenesis through Differential Expression-Patterning of Shared Target Genes in Arabidopsis

Yu Zhang; Oleg Mayba; Anne Pfeiffer; Hui Shi; James M. Tepperman; Terence P. Speed; Peter H. Quail

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003244

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A Quartet of PIF bHLH Factors Provides a Transcriptionally Centered Signaling Hub That Regulates Seedling Morphogenesis through Differential Expression-Patterning of Shared Target Genes in Arabidopsis

Yu Zhang,

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
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Oleg Mayba,

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Anne Pfeiffer,

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
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Hui Shi,

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
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James M. Tepperman,

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
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Terence P. Speed,

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Peter H. Quail

* E-mail: quail@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
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A Quartet of PIF bHLH Factors Provides a Transcriptionally Centered Signaling Hub That Regulates Seedling Morphogenesis through Differential Expression-Patterning of Shared Target Genes in Arabidopsis

Yu Zhang,
Oleg Mayba,
Anne Pfeiffer,
Hui Shi,
James M. Tepperman,
Terence P. Speed,
Peter H. Quail

Published: January 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003244

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