Divergent roles of a pair of homologous jumonji/zinc-finger-class transcription factor proteins in the regulation of Arabidopsis flowering time

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2601-2613

  Noh, Bosl ^a,b   Lee, Seung Hee ^a   Kim, Hyun Jin ^a   Yi, Gibum ^a,b   Shin, Eun Ah ^a,b   Lee, Mirha ^a   Jung, Kyung Ja ^a   Doyle, Mark R ^c   Amasino, Richard M ^c   Noh, Yoo Sun ^a,b,c  

^a Kumho Life and Environmental Science Laboratory   (South Korea)

^b Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; CHROMOSOMES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

CHROMATIN REMODELING; EARLY FLOWERING 6 (ELF6); FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC); RELATIVE OF EARLY FLOWERING 6 (REF6);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 16444370435     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.025353     Document Type: Article

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