Light-sensitive plasticity genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: Mutant analysis and ecological genetics

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-751

  Callahan, Hilary S ^a,b   Wells, Carolyn L ^a   Pigliucci, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptochrome; Epistasis; Flowering time; Life history evolution; Phenotypic plasticity; Photomorphogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000692550     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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