Cis-regulatory elements and chromatin state coordinately control temporal and spatial expression of FLOWERING LOCUS T in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1425-1440

  Adrian, Jessika ^a   Farrona, Sara ^a   Reimer, Julia J ^a   Albani, Maria C ^a   Coupland, George ^a   Turck, Franziska ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; LYSINE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77954394128     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.074682     Document Type: Article

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