Sucrose availability on the aerial part of the plant promotes morphogenesis and flowering of Arabidopsis in the dark

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 581-590

  Roldán, Marta ^a,c   Gómez Mena, Concepción ^a,b   Ruiz García, Leonor ^a,b   Salinas, Julio ^a   Martínez Zapater, José M ^a,b  

^a Subdireccion Gen de Invest y Tecn   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CULTURE MEDIUM; DARKNESS; ECOTYPE; FLOWERING; GIBBERELLIC ACID; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; DARKNESS; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0039702887     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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