Temporal and spatial requirement of EMF1 activity for arabidopsis vegetative and reproductive development

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 643-653

  Sánchez, Rosario ^a   Kim, Minjung Y ^a   Calonje, Myriam ^a,b   Moon, Yong Hwan ^a,c   Sung, Z Renee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early flowering; EMF1; Repression of flower MADS box genes; Reproductive cell memory; Stage specific promoter; Vegetative reproductive development

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 68449096038     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp004     Document Type: Article

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