Analysis of the Arabidopsis shoot meristem transcriptome during floral transition identifies distinct regulatory patterns and a leucine-rich repeat protein that promotes flowering

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 444-462

  Torti, Stefano ^a,b   Fornara, Fabio ^a   Vincent, Coral ^a   Andrés, Fernando ^a   Nordström, Karl ^a   Göbel, Ulrike ^a   Knoll, Daniela ^a   Schoof, Heiko ^a   Coupland, George ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84859044328     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.092791     Document Type: Article

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