CONSTANS delays flowering and affects tuber yield in potato

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-258

  Gonzalez Schain N D ^a   Suarez Lopez P ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flowering time; Photoperiod; Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena; Tuberisation

Indexed keywords

ANDIGENA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 46149085664     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10535-008-0054-z     Document Type: Article

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