Flowering of Arabidopsis cop1 mutants in darkness

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 398-406

  Nakagawa, Mayu ^a   Komeda, Yoshibumi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; cop1; Dark flowering; Flowering

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DARKNESS; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; ONION; TIME; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DARKNESS; FLOWERS; LIGHT; ONIONS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

ALLIUM CEPA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 2342541695     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch047     Document Type: Article

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