Dissection of floral induction pathways using global expression analysis

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 6001-6012

  Schmid, Markus ^a,b   Uhlenhaut, N Henriette ^b,d   Godard, François ^b   Demar, Monika ^a   Bressan, Ray ^c   Weigel, Detlef ^a,b   Lohman, Jan U ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Floral homeotic genes; Floral induction; Flower development; Microarrays

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; PHOTOPERIOD; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0346888548     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00842     Document Type: Article

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