Mutagenesis of plants overexpressing CONSTANS demonstrates novel interactions among Arabidopsis flowering-time genes

Plant Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 885-900

  Onouchi, Hitoshi ^b   Igeño, M Isabel ^a,b   Périlleux, Claire ^b   Graves, Kathryn ^b   Coupland, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CONSTANS; FLOWERING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0033946651     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.12.6.885     Document Type: Article

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