Comparison of environmental and mutational variation in flowering time in Arabidopsis

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4099-4109

  Pouteau, Sylvie ^a   Ferret, Valérie ^a   Lefebvre, Delphine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Bolting; Correlativity; Developmental dynamics; Early flowering mutant; Flowering time; Phase change; Phenocopy; Phenotypic plasticity; Photoperiodic response

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PHASE SHIFT;

CORRELATIVITY; DYNAMIC CONVERGENCE; FLOWERING TIME; MUTANTS; PHENOCOPY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOTOPERIODIC RESPONSE;

GROWTH KINETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF;

ARABIDOPSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33845635325     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erl186     Document Type: Article

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