The Need for Winter in the Switch to Flowering

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 371-392

  Henderson, Ian R ^a   Shindo, Chikako ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold response; Epigenetics; Floral transition; Flowering time genetics; Vernalization

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD CLIMATE; FLOWERING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VERNALIZATION; WINTER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FLOWERING TOPS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0347194149     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.142640     Document Type: Review

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