Constitutive expression of the GIGANTEA ortholog affects circadian rhythms and suppresses one-shot induction of flowering in pharbitis nil, a typical short-day plant

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 638-650

  Higuchi, Yohei ^a,c   Sage Ono, Kimiyo ^a   Sasaki, Ryuta ^a   Ohtsuki, Namie ^a   Hoshino, Atsushi ^b   Iida, Shigeru ^b,d   Kamada, Hiroshi ^a   Ono, Michiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Flowering; GIGANTEA; Pharbitis nil; Photoperiodism; Short day plant

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IPOMOEA NIL; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IPOMOEA NIL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA NIL;

EID: 79953848696     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr023     Document Type: Article

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