Vernalization and flowering time

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 154-158

  Amasino, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENES; SIGNAL ENCODING;

REPRESSORS; SUPPRESSION; WINTER;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CEREAL; CHROMATIN; COLD EXPOSURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIGENETICS; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; VERNALIZATION; WHEAT; WINTER;

CLIMATES; GENES; PLANTS;

EID: 17044370478     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.02.004     Document Type: Review

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