Functional importance of conserved domains in the flowering-time gene CONSTANS demonstrated by analysis of mutant alleles and transgenic plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 619-631

  Robson, Frances ^a,c   Costa, M Manuela R ^a   Hepworth, Shelley R ^a   Vizir, Igor ^a   Piñeiro, Manuel ^a   Reeves, Paul H ^a   Putterill, Joanna ^a,c   Coupland, George ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; B box zinc finger; Flowering; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

ZINC FINGER REGIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035544373     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2001.01163.x     Document Type: Article

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