FCA, a gene controlling flowering time in arabidopsis, encodes a protein containing RNA-binding domains

Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 737-745

  Macknight, Richard ^a   Bancroft, Ian ^a   Page, Tania ^a,c   Lister, Clare ^a   Schmidt, Renate ^a,d   Love, Karina ^a   Westphal, Lore ^a,e   Murphy, George ^a   Sherson, Sarah ^b   Cobbett, Christopher ^b   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d Max Delbruck Laboratorium der Max Planck Gesellschaft   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0030696674     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80256-1     Document Type: Article

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