Acceleration of flowering by overexpression of MFT (MOTHER OF FT AND TFL1)

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-101

  Yoo, So Yeon ^a   Kardailsky, Igor ^a   Lee, Jong Seob ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^b   Ahn, Ji Hoon ^c  

^a PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flowering time; FT TFL1 gene family; Genetic interaction; MFT

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 4344671779     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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