Wheat flowering repressor VRN2 and promoter CO2 compete for interactions with NUCLEAR FACTOR-Y complexes

Plant Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 763-773

  Li, Chengxia ^a   Distelfeld, Assaf ^a   Comis, Alfio ^b,c   Dubcovsky, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CO; NF Y; VRN2; VRN3 regulation; wheat flowering

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS; IN-VITRO; NF-Y; OVER-EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT; VERNALIZATION REQUIREMENT; VRN2; VRN3 REGULATION; WHEAT FLOWERING; WINTER WHEAT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPLEXATION;

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEASON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WHEAT;

ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASE; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SEASONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO; TRITICUM; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARABIDOPSIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80052262460     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04630.x     Document Type: Article

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