Four TFL1/CEN-like genes on distinct linkage groups show different expression patterns to regulate vegetative and reproductive development in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 394-412

  Mimida, Naozumi ^a   Kotoda, Nobuhiro ^a   Ueda, Takanori ^a   Igarashi, Megumi ^b   Hatsuyama, Yoshimichi ^b   Iwanami, Hiroshi ^a   Moriya, Shigeki ^a   Abe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Aomori Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apple; Centroradialis (CEN); Flowering time; Gene family; Malus x domestica Borkh; Terminal Flower1 (TFL1)

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; TFL1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APPLE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MALUS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 60149104277     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp001     Document Type: Article

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