The Nuclear Factor Y subunits NF-YB2 and NF-YB3 play additive roles in the promotion of flowering by inductive long-day photoperiods in Arabidopsis

Planta

Volumn 228, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 709-723

  Kumimoto, Roderick W ^a,b   Adam, Luc ^a   Hymus, Graham J ^a   Repetti, Peter P ^a   Reuber, T Lynne ^a   Marion, Colleen M ^a   Hempel, Frederick D ^a,c   Ratcliffe, Oliver J ^a  

^a Mendel Biotechnology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Baia Nicchia LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

CCAAT box; CONSTANS; Flowering time; FT; NF Y

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NF YB1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NF-YB1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 51349166126     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-008-0773-6     Document Type: Article

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