Diversity of flowering responses in wild Arabidopsis thaliana strains

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 0109-0118

  Lempe, Janne ^a   Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar ^a   Sureshkumar, Sridevi ^a   Singh, Anandita ^a   Schmid, Markus ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 77955610825     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010006     Document Type: Article

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