Gibberellins and Flowering of Grasses and Cereals: Prizing Open the Lid of the "Florigen" Black Box

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2003, Pages 307-328

  King, Rod W ^a   Evans, Lloyd T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Daylength; Gene expression; Lolium; Wheat

Indexed keywords

LOLIUM; LOLIUM TEMULENTUM; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

GIBBERELLIN;

CEREAL; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; REVIEW;

CEREALS; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; GIBBERELLINS; LIGHT; POACEAE;

EID: 0141600773     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.54.031902.135029     Document Type: Review

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