Developing a method for customized induction of flowering

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yeoh, Chin C ^a   Balcerowicz, Martin ^a   Laurie, Rebecca ^b   Macknight, Richard ^b   Putterill, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ECONOMIC VALUES; FLORAL INDUCTION; INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; LATE-FLOWERING; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICRORNAS; PLANT KINGDOM;

ETHANOL; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE EXPRESSION;

ALCOHOL; MICRORNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS T GENE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; UPREGULATION; AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ETHANOL; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953800572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-11-36     Document Type: Article

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