FALSIFLORA, the tomato orthologue of FLORICAULA and LEAFY, controls flowering time and floral meristem identity

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 685-693

  Molinero Rosales, Nuria ^a   Jamilena, Manuel ^a   Zurita, Sergio ^a   Gómez, Pedro ^a   Capel, Juan ^a   Lozano, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETION MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FLOWERING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; INFLORESCENCE; MUTANT; NICOTIANA; PETUNIA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; TOMATO; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033368222     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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