The CArG-box located upstream from the transcriptional start of wheat vernalization gene VRN1 is not necessary for the vernalization response

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-364

  Pidal, Bárbara ^a   Yan, Liuling ^c   Fu, Daolin ^b,d   Zhang, Fengqiu ^c   Tranquilli, Gabriela ^a   Dubcovsky, Jorge ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CArG box; Flowering; Regulatory regions; Triticum monococcum; Vernalization; Wheat

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FLOWERING; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPRING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VERNALIZATION; VRN1 GENE; WHEAT; WILD TYPE; WINTER;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRITICUM;

TRITICEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM;

EID: 65349111416     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp002     Document Type: Article

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