Potato CONSTANS is involved in photoperiodic tuberization in a graft-transmissible manner

Plant Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 678-690

  González Schain, Nahuel D ^a   Díaz Mendoza, Mercedes ^a,b   Zurczak, Marek ^a,c   Suárez López, Paula ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

CONSTANS; flowering; long distance signaling; photoperiod; potato; tuberization

Indexed keywords

CONSTANS; FLOWERING; LONG-DISTANCE SIGNALING; PHOTOPERIOD; POTATO; TUBERIZATION;

GENES; PROCESS CONTROL; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TIME FACTORS;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84861329310     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04909.x     Document Type: Article

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