JOINTLESS is a MADS-box gene controlling tomato flower abscission zone development

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6798, 2000, Pages 910-913

  Mao, Long ^a   Begum, Dilara ^a   Chuang, Huey Wen ^c   Budiman, Muhammad A ^a   Szymkowiak, Eugene J ^b   Irish, Erin E ^b   Wing, Rod A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMATO;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT COMPONENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034710657     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35022611     Document Type: Article

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