The medicago Flowering locus T homolog, MtFTa1, is a key regulator of flowering time

Plant Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2207-2224

  Laurie, Rebecca E ^a   Diwadkar, Payal ^a   Jaudal, Mauren ^a   Zhang, Lulu ^b   Hecht, Valérie ^c   Wen, Jiangqi ^d   Tadege, Million ^d   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^d   Putterill, Joanna ^b   Weller, James L ^c   Macknight, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 79961177335     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.180182     Document Type: Article

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