Natural variation of polyglutamine repeats of a circadian clock gene ELF3 in Arabidopsis

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-240

  Tajima, Takeomi ^a   Oda, Atsushi ^a   Nakagawa, Mayu ^a   Kamada, Hiroshi ^a   Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Circadian rhythms; ELF3; Natural variation; Polyglutamine

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33947502762     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.24.237     Document Type: Article

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