Conservation of Arabidopsis thaliana photoperiodic flowering time genes in onion (Allium cepa L.)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1638-1647

  Taylor, Andrew ^a   Massiah, Andrea Juliet ^a   Thomas, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bulb initiation; Daylength response; F BOX 1 (FKF1); FLAVINBINDING; GIGANTEA (GI); KELCH REPEAT; Onion; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FKF1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT RNA; ZTL PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ONIONS; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PLANT;

ALLIUM CEPA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77957947344     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq120     Document Type: Article

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