Regulation of flowering in the long-day grass Lolium temulentum by gibberellins and the FLOWERING LOCUS T gene

Plant Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 498-507

  King, Rod W ^a   Moritz, Thomas ^b   Evans, Lloyd T ^a   Martin, Jerome ^c,e   Andersen, Claus H ^c,f   Blundell, Cheryl ^a   Kardailsky, Igor ^d   Chandler, Peter M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c DLF Trifolium AS   (Denmark)

^d AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PROTEINS; RNA;

2-OXIDASE CATABOLIC GENE; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE; FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT); GIBBERELLINS; LOLIUM TEMULENTUM;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; GROWTH; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROTEINS;

LOLIUM; LOLIUM TEMULENTUM;

EID: 33745663780     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.076760     Document Type: Article

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