The study of the E-class SEPALLATA3-like MADS-box genes in wild-type and mutant flowers of cultivated saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.) and its putative progenitors

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1675-1684

  Tsaftaris, Athanasios ^a,b   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^a   Makris, Antonios ^a   Darzentas, Nikos ^a   Polidoros, Alexios ^a   Kalivas, Apostolos ^a   Argiriou, Anagnostis ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crocus sativus L.; MADS box genes; Monocots; RCA RACE; SEPALLATA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CROCUS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GREECE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CROCUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREECE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARAGALES; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS; CROCUS; CROCUS CARTWRIGHTIANUS; CROCUS SATIVUS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIALES; LILIOPSIDA; ORYZA SATIVA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960324672     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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