Arabidopsis BLADE-ON-PETIOLE1 and 2 promote floral meristem fate and determinacy in a previously undefined pathway targeting APETALA1 and AGAMOUS-LIKE24

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 974-989

  Xu, Mingli ^a   Hu, Tieqiang ^a   McKim, Sarah M ^b   Murmu, Jhadeswar ^a   Haughn, George W ^c   Hepworth, Shelley R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AGAMOUS LIKE24 (AGL24); APETALA1; BLADE ON PETIOLE; floral meristem identity; LEAFY

Indexed keywords

AGAMOUS-LIKE24 (AGL24); APETALA1; BLADE-ON-PETIOLE; FLORAL MERISTEMS; LEAFY;

ARCHITECTURE; DEFECTS; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AP1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BOP1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BOP2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77956795141     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04299.x     Document Type: Article

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