Cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptors of Arabidopsis implicated in phototropism

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6677, 1998, Pages 720-723

  Ahmad, Margaret ^a   Jarillo, Jose A ^a   Smirnova, Olga ^a   Cashmore, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PLANT GROWTH; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTOTROPISM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0032537186     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33701     Document Type: Article

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