Genetic analysis of early flowering mutants in Arabidopsis defines a class of pleiotropic developmental regulator required for expression of the flowering-time switch FLOWERING LOCUS C

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 347-358

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Ransom, Callista ^a   Ludwig, Philip ^a   Van Nocker, Steven ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 390 Plant and Soil Sciences Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOWER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION; VIP3 GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERING TOPS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0038530772     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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