Cryptochrome 1 from Brassica napus is up-regulated by blue light and controls hypocotyl/stem growth and anthocyanin accumulation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-74

  Chatterjee, Mithu ^a,b   Sharma, Pooja ^a   Khurana, Jitendra P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ANTHOCYANIN ACCUMULATION; ARABIDOPSIS; CRYPTOCHROMES; STEM GROWTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GROWTH; PHOTORECEPTORS; PLANTS; STEMS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 33745467864     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.076323     Document Type: Article

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