Arabidopsis COP1 shapes the temporal pattern of CO accumulation conferring a photoperiodic flowering response

EMBO Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1277-1288

  Jang, Seonghoe ^a   Marchal, Virginie ^a   Panigrahi, Kishore C S ^a   Wenkel, Stephan ^a,d   Soppe, Wim ^a   Deng, Xing Wang ^b   Valverde, Federico ^c   Coupland, George ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CONSTANS; Flowering; Photomorphogenesis; Ubiquitin ligase

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOCHROME B; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR CONSTANS; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE COP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SUMMER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FLOWER; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; LIGHT; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 42449119813     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.68     Document Type: Article

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