The indeterminate gene encodes a zinc finger protein and regulates a leaf-generated signal required for the transition to flowering in maize

Cell

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 593-603

  Colasanti, Joseph ^a,b   Yuan, Zhuang ^b   Sundaresan, Venkatesan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PROTEIN PCP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXON; GENE DELETION; INTRON; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032524659     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81188-5     Document Type: Article

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