The impact of chromatin regulation on the floral transition

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 560-573

  Farrona, Sara ^a   Coupland, George ^a   Turck, Franziska ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chromatin; Floral transition; Histone modification; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRM PROTEIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H2AZ; ISOPROTEIN; LYSINE; PLANT DNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN SWI; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COLD EXPOSURE; EMBRYONIC FLOWER 2 GENE; FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT ENDOSPERM GENE; FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT SEED 2 GENE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTONE CODE; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERNALIZATION; VERNALIZATION 2 GENE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 54549115858     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2008.07.015     Document Type: Review

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