Different roles of flowering-time genes in the activation of floral initiation genes in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1921-1934

  Ruiz García, Leonor ^a,c   Madueño, Francisco ^a,b   Wilkinson, Mark ^a,b   Haughn, George ^a,b   Saunas, Julio ^a,b   Martínez Zapater, José M ^a,b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORAL INITIATION; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; PHENOTYPING;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0031277693     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.11.1921     Document Type: Article

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