Early flowering 5 acts as a floral repressor in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 664-672

  Noh, Yoo Sun ^a,b,c   Bizzell, Colleen M ^a   Noh, Bosl ^b,c   Schomburg, Fritz M ^a   Amasino, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^c Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Autonomous; ELF5; FLC; Flowering; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

FLORAL REPRESSORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ELF5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLOWER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEASON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA PRIMERS; FLOWERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 2542559038     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02072.x     Document Type: Article

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