A gain-of-function mutation of arabidopsis CRYPTOCHROME1 promotes flowering

Plant Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1633-1645

  Exner, Vivien ^a   Alexandre, Cristina ^a   Rosenfeldt, Gesa ^b   Alfarano, Pietro ^c   Nater, Mena ^a   Caflisch, Amedeo ^c   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a   Batschauer, Alfred ^b   Hennig, Lars ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 78649775756     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.160895     Document Type: Article

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