Phytochrome control of flowering is temperature sensitive and correlates with expression of the floral integrator FT

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 875-885

  Halliday, Karen J ^a   Salter, Michael G ^b   Thingnaes, Elin ^b,c   Whitelam, Garry C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Flowering; phyB; phyE; Phytochrome; Temperature

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EFFECTS; VEGETATION; BIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

PHYTOCHROME CONTROL;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

APOPROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROME B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERING; PHYB; PHYE; PHYTOCHROME;

EID: 0037340948     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01674.x     Document Type: Article

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