FRIGIDA-independent variation in flowering time of natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

Genetics

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1197-1207

  Werner, Jonathan D ^a,b   Borevitz, Justin O ^a,b,c   Henriette Uhlenhaut, N ^a,f   Ecker, Joseph R ^a   Chory, Joanne ^a,d   Weigel, Detlef ^a,e  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS C GENE; FRIGIDA GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; FLOWERS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 23344452977     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.036533     Document Type: Article

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