Crosstalk between cold response and flowering in Arabidopsis is mediated through the flowering-time gene SOC1 and its upstream negative regulator FLC

Plant Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3185-3197

  Seo, Eunjoo ^a,e   Lee, Horim ^a,e   Jeon, Jin ^b   Park, Hanna ^a   Kim, Jungmook ^b   Noh, Yoo Sun ^c   Lee, Ilha ^a,c,d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 72049088769     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.063883     Document Type: Article

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