Light-quality regulation of freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1410-1413

  Franklin, Keara A ^a   Whitelam, Garry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REPEAT DROUGHT RESPONSIVE PROMOTER ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CBT GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD REGULATED GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; LIGHT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; PHYTOCHROME B; RNA, PLANT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 35649003891     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.3     Document Type: Article

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