Control of Arabidopsis flowering: The chill before the bloom

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3829-3838

  Henderson, Ian R ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPRING; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; VERNALIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHTING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 4544370633     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01294     Document Type: Review

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