Overexpression of LEAFY in apple leads to a columnar phenotype with shorter internodes

Planta

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-263

  Flachowsky, Henryk ^a   Hättasch, Conny ^a   Höfer, Monika ^a   Peil, Andreas ^a   Hanke, Magda Viola ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Early flowering; LFY; Malus; Reduced internodes; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LFY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APPLE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STEM; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INSECTS; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 77949774475     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-009-1041-0     Document Type: Article

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