PRFLL - A Pinus radiata homologue of FLORICAULA and LEAFY is expressed in buds containing vegetative shoot and undifferentiated male cone primordia

Planta

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 619-629

  Mellerowicz, Ewa J ^a,b   Horgan, Kathryn ^a   Walden, Adrian ^a   Coker, Astrid ^a   Walter, Christian ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cone development; Conifer (flowering); Flowering; LEAFY; Meristem identity; Pinus (flowering)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONED GENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TREES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PINUS RADIATA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0032212575     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050440     Document Type: Article

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