The switch to flowering: Genes involved in floral induction of the apple cultivar 'Pinova' and the role of the flowering gene MdFT

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 839, Issue , 2009, Pages 701-705

  Hattasch C ^a   Flachowsky, H ^a   Hanke, M V ^a   Lehmann, S ^b   Gau, A ^b   Kapturska, D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFL; Malus domestica; MdCOL; MdMADS; MdTFL1

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 75649109216     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.839.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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