Transcription factor PIF4 controls the thermosensory activation of flowering

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7393, 2012, Pages 242-245

  Kumar, S Vinod ^a   Lucyshyn, Doris ^a,c   Jaeger, Katja E ^a   Alós, Enriqueta ^a   Alvey, Elizabeth ^a   Harberd, Nicholas P ^a,b   Wigge, Philip A ^a,d  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PLANT; DATE (TIME); FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; FLOWERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT LEAVES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862786409     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10928     Document Type: Article

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