The synergistic activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C by FRIGIDA and a new flowering gene AERIAL ROSETTE 1 underlies a novel morphology in arabidopsis

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1457-1465

  Poduska, Branislava ^a   Humphrey, Tania ^a   Redweik, Antje ^b   Grbić, Vojislava ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROSETTE 1 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWERING LOCUS C GENE; FRIGIDA GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFLORESCENCE; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0037396594     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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