Late-flowering genes interact with early-flowering genes to regulate flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 702-708

  Chou, Ming Lun ^a   Yang, Chang Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Double mutants Early flowering mutants; Late flowering mutants

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; GENE INTERACTION; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0033166779     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029596     Document Type: Article

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