Multiple pathways in the decision to flower: Enabling, promoting, and resetting

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Boss, Paul K ^a   Bastow, Ruth M ^a   Mylne, Joshua S ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE; PLASTICITY;

FLORAL PATHWAYS; FLORAL TRANSITION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 2942644876     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.015958     Document Type: Review

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