Distinct roles of constans target genes in reproductive development of Arabidopsis

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5471, 2000, Pages 1613-1616

  Samach, Alon ^a,d   Onouchi, Hitoshi ^a   Gold, Scott E ^b,e   Ditta, Gary S ^b   Schwarz Sommer, Zsuzsanna ^c   Yanofsky, Martin F ^b   Coupland, George ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROLINE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034595777     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1613     Document Type: Article

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