Isolation and characterization of phyC mutants in Arabidopsis reveals complex crosstalk between phytochrome signaling pathways

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1962-1980

  Monte, Elena ^a,b   Alonso, José M ^c,f   Ecker, Joseph R ^c   Zhang, Yuelin ^d,g   Li, Xin ^d,g   Young, Jeff ^e,h   Austin Phillips, Sandra ^e   Quail, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d MAXYGEN INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MUTANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0141564579     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.012971     Document Type: Article

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