A genetic study of the arabidopsis circadian clock with reference to the Timing of CAB Expression 1 (TOC1) gene

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 290-303

  Ito, Shogo ^a   Kawamura, Hideaki ^a   Niwa, Yusuke ^a   Nakamichi, Norihito ^a   Yamashino, Takafumi ^a   Mizuno, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Circadian rhythm; Clock component; Photomorphogenesis; Pseudo response regulators

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; TOC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HYPOCOTYL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 60149094712     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn198     Document Type: Article

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