Induction of flowering by 5-azacytidine in some plant species: Relationship between the stability of photoperiodically induced flowering and flower-inducing effect of DNA demethylation

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 462-469

  Kondo, Hiroshi ^a   Miura, Takashi ^a   Wada, Kaede C ^a   Takeno, Kiyotoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; METHYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

AZACYTIDINE; DEMETHYLATING REAGENTS; PHOTOPERIODICALLY INDUCED FLOWERING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AZACITIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IPOMOEA NIL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SILENE;

AZACITIDINE; DNA METHYLATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IPOMOEA NIL; PHOTOPERIOD; SILENE;

IPOMOEA NIL; LEMNA PAUCICOSTATA; PERILLA FRUTESCENS; SILENE; SILENE ARMERIA; XANTHIUM; XANTHIUM STRUMARIUM;

EID: 34848839611     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00965.x     Document Type: Article

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