Over-expression of a C-terminal region of phytochrome B

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1079-1082

  Sakamoto, Koji ^a   Nagatani, Akira ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; photomorphogenesis; phytocrome B; signal transduction; transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0030221015     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00040726     Document Type: Article

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