How plants tell the time

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-46

  Murtas, Giovanni ^a   Millar, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CCA1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LHY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034142283     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)00034-5     Document Type: Review

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