Natural allelic variation identifies new genes in the Arabidopsis circadian system

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-77

  Swarup, Kamal ^a,d   Alonso Blanco, Carlos ^b,e   Lynn, James R ^a   Michaels, Scott D ^c   Amasino, Richard M ^c   Koornneef, Maarten ^b   Millar, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EUROPE; FLOWERING; PLANT GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; HOMEOSTASIS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033213104     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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