A Nuclear Protease Required for Flowering-Time Regulation in Arabidopsis Reduces the Abundance of SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER Conjugates

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2308-2319

  Murtas, Giovanni ^a   Reeves, Paul H ^a,b   Fu, Yong Fu ^a,b   Bancroft, Ian ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a   Coupland, George ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS; YEAST;

NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0142028822     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.015487     Document Type: Article

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