Expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana BBX32 gene in soybean increases grain yield

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Preuss, Sasha B ^a   Meister, Robert ^a   Xu, Qingzhang ^a,c   Urwin, Carl P ^a   Tripodi, Federico A ^a   Screen, Steven E ^a   Anil, Veena S ^a,d   Zhu, Shuquan ^a   Morrell, James A ^a   Liu, Grace ^a   Ratcliffe, Oliver J ^b   Reuber, T Lynne ^b   Khanna, Rajnish ^b   Goldman, Barry S ^a   Bell, Erin ^a   Ziegler, Todd E ^a   McClerren, Amanda L ^a   Ruff, Thomas G ^a   Petracek, Marie E ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^b Mendel Biotechnology   (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BBX32 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; B BOX 32 DOMAIN GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAIN YIELD; GROWTH RATE; LHY CCA1 LIKE2 GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; POD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SOYBEAN; TOCI GENE; TRANSGENIC CROP; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; SOYBEANS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857169506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030717     Document Type: Article

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