Temporal analysis of natural variation for the rate of leaf production and its relationship with flowering initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1611-1623

  Méndez Vigo, Belén ^a   De Andrés, M Teresa ^a   Ramiro, Mercedes ^a   Martínez Zapater, José M ^a   Alonso Blanco, Carlos ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Flowering locus C (FLC); Flowering time; Growth; HUA2; Natural variation; Plastochron; Quantitative trait locus (QTL); Rate of leaf production; Vegetative development

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77951121046     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq032     Document Type: Article

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