Regulation and identity of florigen: Flowering Locus T moves center stage

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 573-594

  Turck, Franziska ^a   Fornara, Fabio ^a   Coupland, George ^a  

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

Author keywords

CONSTANS; Floral transition; Light dependent protein stability; Photoperiod; Systemic signaling

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT LEAVES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 44949113265     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092755     Document Type: Review

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