Recent advances of flowering locus T gene in higher plants

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3773-3781

  Xu, Feng ^a,b   Rong, Xiaofeng ^b   Huang, Xiaohua ^b   Cheng, Shuiyuan ^a  

^a HUANGGANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Expression of products; Flowering hormone; FT homologous genes

Indexed keywords

FLORIGEN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS T GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; REVIEW; TRANSGENICS; VASCULAR PLANT; VERNALIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD;

EID: 84858981254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms13033773     Document Type: Review

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