Extensive phenotypic variation in early flowering mutants of Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 201-211

  Pouteau, Sylvie ^a   Ferret, Valérie ^a   Gaudin, Valérie ^a   Lefebvre, Delphine ^a,b   Sabar, Mohammed ^a,c   Zhao, Gengchun ^a,d   Prunus, Franck ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MUTAGENESIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FLOWERING MUTANTS; PHENOTYPES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 2442698026     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.039453     Document Type: Article

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