Transgenic expression of a putative calcium transporter affects the time of Arabidopsis flowering

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 285-292

  Wang, Dayong ^a,b   Xu, Yunjian ^a,b,c   Li, Qing ^a,b,c   Hao, Xuemei ^b   Cui, Keming ^b   Sun, Fangzhen ^d   Zhu, Yuxian ^a,b,c  

^a State Key Lab Protein Eng Plant G   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Peking Yale Research Center   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis transformation; Calcium fluorescence; Flowering; Gene expression; Pisum G2; PPF1

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; ASSAYS; CALCIUM; PROTEINS; VEGETATION;

CALCIUM TRANSPORTERS;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHLOROPLASTS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PEAS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0037263431     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01627.x     Document Type: Article

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