Molecular characterization of flowering LOCUS t-like genes of apple (malus × domestica borkh.)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 561-575

  Kotoda, Nobuhiro ^a   Hayashi, Hidehiro ^a   Suzuki, Motoko ^a   Igarashi, Megumi ^b,e   Hatsuyama, Yoshimichi ^b,e   Kidou, Shin Ichiro ^c,f   Igasaki, Tomohiro ^d   Nishiguchi, Mitsuru ^d   Yano, Kanako ^a   Shimizu, Tokurou ^a   Takahashi, Sae ^a   Iwanami, Hiroshi ^a   Moriya, Shigeki ^a   Abe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Aomori Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center   (Japan)

^c IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e Local Independent Administrative Institution Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center Fisheries Research Institute   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apple; FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT); Flowering time; Juvenility; Malus domestica Borkh

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APPLE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 77952943097     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq021     Document Type: Article

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