Phytochromes B, D, and E act redundantly to control multiple physiological responses in arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1340-1346

  Franklin, Keara A ^a   Praekelt, Uta ^a   Stoddart, Wendy M ^a   Billingham, Olivia E ^b   Halliday, Karen J ^b   Whitelam, Garry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

LEAF DEVELOPMENT;

PIGMENTS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0037355251     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.015487     Document Type: Article

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