Identification of two MADS box genes that are expressed in the apical meristem of the long-day plant Sinapis alba in transition to flowering

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 399-408

  Menzel, Gerhard ^a,b   Apel, Klaus ^a   Melzer, Siegbert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; SINAPIS; SINAPIS ALBA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REGULATOR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030111334     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.09030399.x     Document Type: Article

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