The ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) from plants are RNA N-glycosidases that
depurinate the major rRNA, thus damaging ribosomes, and arresting protein synthesis [1-8] …

Maize (Zea mays L.) plays a very important role in human and animal nutrition in a number
of developed and developing countries, worldwide. Breeding for improved protein quality in …

The basic leucine (Leu) zipper (bZIP) proteins compose a family of transcriptional regulators
present exclusively in eukaryotes. The bZIP proteins characteristically harbor a bZIP domain …

In plants, basic leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins regulate numerous biological processes such
as seed maturation, flower and vascular development, stress signalling and pathogen …

In angiosperms, a double fertilization event initiates the development of two distinct
structures, the embryo and endosperm. The endosperm plays an important role in …

Starch composition and the amount in endosperm, both of which contribute dramatically to
seed yield, cooking quality, and taste in cereals, are determined by a series of complex …

Plant bZIP proteins exhibit a relaxed DNA-binding specificity for DNA sequence motifs
containing an ACGT core. Gel mobility shift experiments employing ten different recombinant …

Several classes of zinc-finger motifs are present in transcription factors and function as parts
of DNA-binding and protein-protein interaction domains. Most of the known classes of zinc …

ACGT cis‐acting DNA sequence elements have been identified in a multitude of plant genes
regulated by diverse environmental, physiological, and environmental cues. In vivo transient …

Dof is a novel family of plant proteins that share a unique and highly conserved DNA binding
domain with one C2–C2 zinc finger motif. Although multiple Dof proteins associated with …