Control of lateral organ development and flowering time by the Arabidopsis thaliana MADS-box Gene AGAMOUS-LIKE6

Plant Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 807-816

  Koo, Sung C ^a   Bracko, Oliver ^b   Park, Mi S ^a   Schwab, Rebecca ^b   Chun, Hyun J ^a   Park, Kyoung M ^a   Seo, Jun S ^a   Grbic, Vojislava ^b,d   Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar ^b,e   Schmid, Markus ^b   Godard, François ^c   Yun, Dae Jin ^a   Lee, Sang Y ^a   Cho, Moo J ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^b,c   Kim, Min C ^a,b  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

AGL6; Arabidopsis; Bract; Flower development; Flowering; MADS box gene

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; DOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION; FLORAL ORGANS; FLORAL REPRESSORS; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWERING-TIME; FULL-LENGTH CODING; HOMEOTIC GENES; LATERAL ORGANS; LEAF PRIMORDIA; MADS-BOX; MADS-BOX GENES; OVER-EXPRESSION; PHOTOPERIODIC INDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OVULE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVULE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77952842148     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04192.x     Document Type: Article

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