Cis-regulatory changes at Flowering Locus T mediate natural variation in flowering responses of Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 723-732

  Schwartz, Christopher ^a,e   Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar ^b,g   Warthmann, Norman ^a,b   Michael, Todd P ^a,f   Lempe, Janne ^b,i   Sureshkumar, Sridevi ^b,g   Kobayashi, Yasushi ^b   Maloof, Julin N ^a,d   Borevitz, Justin O ^a,c   Chory, Joanne ^a,h   Weigel, Detlef ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOWERING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; INTROGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 70649114601     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.104984     Document Type: Article

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