Diversity of plant life cycles is generated by dynamic epigenetic regulation in response to vernalization

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 266, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 595-605

  Satake, Akiko ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; FLC; Flowering; Histone modifications; Local adaptation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLOWERING LOCUS C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOWERING; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERNALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOWERING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HABITAT; LIFE CYCLE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERNALIZATION; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77955350040     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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