Adaptation of photoperiodic control pathways produces short-day flowering in rice

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 719-722

  Hayama, Ryosuke ^a   Yokoi, Shuji ^a   Tamaki, Shojiro ^a   Yano, Masahiro ^b   Shimamoto, Ko ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULES;

FLOWERING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PHOTOPERIOD; RICE;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RICE; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGHT; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0037452083     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01549     Document Type: Article

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