GmFT2a, a soybean homolog of flowering locus T, is involved in flowering transition and maintenance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Hongbo ^a,b   Jia, Zhen ^a   Cao, Dong ^a   Jiang, Bingjun ^a   Wu, Cunxiang ^a   Hou, Wensheng ^a   Liu, Yike ^a   Fei, Zhihong ^a   Zhao, Dazhong ^c   Han, Tianfu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GMFT2A GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GRAFTING; PLANT TISSUE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHOOT; SOYBEAN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VASCULAR TISSUE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOYBEANS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83355168755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029238     Document Type: Article

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