Light-regulated large-scale reorganization of chromatin during the floral transition in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 848-857

  Tessadori, Federico ^a   Schulkes, Roeland Kees ^a   Driel, Roel Van ^a   Fransz, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Floral transition; Heterochromatin; Nucleus

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA SEQUENCES; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH KINETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLORAL TRANSITION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEUS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; FLOWER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES;

FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH; PLANTS; PROTOPLASM; REPRODUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34249812366     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03093.x     Document Type: Article

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