The gentian orthologs of the FT/TFL1 gene family control floral initiation in gentiana

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1031-1041

  Imamura, Tomohiro ^a   Nakatsuka, Takashi ^a   Higuchi, Atsumi ^a   Nishihara, Masahiro ^a   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a IWATE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floral initiation; FT; Gentian; Perennial plant; TFL1

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENTIAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEASON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENTIANA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UP-REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENTIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79958799566     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr055     Document Type: Article

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