Heterotopic expression of B-class floral homeotic genes PISTILLATA/GLOBOSA supports a modified model for crocus (Crocus sativus L.) flower formation

DNA Sequence - Journal of DNA Sequencing and Mapping

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 120-130

  Kalivas, Apostolos ^a   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^b   Polidoros, Alexios N ^b   Tsaftaris, Athanasios S ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crocus sativus; micro RNA target analysis; PISTILLATA GLOBOSA; Saffron; Tepal formation

Indexed keywords

DEFICIENS PROTEIN; MADS BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN APETALA3; PROTEIN GLOBOSA; PROTEIN PISTILLATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS; CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HETEROTROPH; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETAL; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAMEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROCUS; FLOWERS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

EID: 33847009932     PISSN: 10425179     EISSN: 10292365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10425170601060582     Document Type: Article

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