The Wheat VRN2 Gene Is a Flowering Repressor Down-Regulated by Vernalization

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5664, 2004, Pages 1640-1644

  Yan, Liuling ^a   Loukoianov, Artem ^a   Blechl, Ann ^b   Tranquilli, Gabriela ^a,f   Ramakrishna, Wusirika ^c   SanMiguel, Phillip ^d   Bennetzen, Jeffrey L ^e   Echenique, Viviana ^a,g   Dubcovsky, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CROPS; MUTAGENESIS; RNA;

FLOWERING REPRESSORS; WHEAT VERNALIZATION;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

FLOWERING;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CEREAL; CHROMOSOME WALKING; CLONING; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VERNALIZATION; VRN1 GENE; VRN2 GENE; WHEAT; ZCCT GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; DOWN-REGULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEASONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRITICUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 1542723291     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094305     Document Type: Article

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