A novel high-throughput in vivo molecular screen for shade avoidance mutants identifies a novel phyA mutation

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2973-2987

  Wang, Xuewen ^a,e   Roig Villanova, Irma ^b,f   Khan, Safina ^a   Shanahan, Hugh ^a   Quail, Peter H ^c   Martinez Garcia, Jaime F ^b,d   Devlin, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; light; luciferase; phytochrome; shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYTOCHROME A; PHYTOCHROME B;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HYPOCOTYL; LIGHT; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOCHROME A; PHYTOCHROME B; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79957491211     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err062     Document Type: Article

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