Characterization and effects of the replicated flowering time gene FLC in Brassica rapa

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1457-1468

  Schranz, M Eric ^a   Quijada, Pablo ^a   Sung, Si Bum ^a   Lukens, Lewis ^a,b   Amasino, Richard ^a   Osborn, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME 5; FLOWERING; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TURNIP;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA RAPA;

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA RAPA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE DUPLICATION; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036859948     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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