Arabidopsis early-flowering mutants reveal multiple levels of regulation in the vegetative-to-floral transition

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 409-418

  Hicks, Karen A ^a   Sundås, Annika ^a,b   RyMeeks Wagner, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Early flowering; Inflorescence development; Light perception

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0039470513     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1996.0051     Document Type: Article

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