The PHYTOCHROME C photoreceptor gene mediates natural variation in flowering and growth responses of Arabidopsis thaliana

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 711-715

  Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar ^a   Sureshkumar, Sridevi ^a   Agrawal, Mitesh ^a   Michael, Todd P ^b,c   Wessinger, Carrie ^d   Maloof, Julin N ^d   Clark, Richard ^a   Warthmann, Norman ^a   Chory, Joanne ^b,c   Weigel, Detlef ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; FLOWERING; FRIGIDA GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; LATITUDE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYTOCHROME C GENE; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; VERNALIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERS; GENOME, PLANT; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHROME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33745247360     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1818     Document Type: Article

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