FLOWERING BHLH transcriptional activators control expression of the photoperiodic flowering regulator CONSTANS in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3582-3587

  Ito, Shogo ^a   Song, Young Hun ^a   Josephson Day, Anna R ^a   Miller, Ryan J ^a   Breton, Ghislain ^b,c   Olmstead, Richard G ^a   Imaizumi, Takato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Developmental transition; Photoperiodism

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; PROTEIN CONSTANS; PROTEIN CYCLING DOF FACTOR; PROTEIN FLOWERING BHLH; PROTEIN FLOWERING BHLH1; PROTEIN FLOWERING BHLH2; PROTEIN FLOWERING BHLH3; PROTEIN FLOWERING BHLH4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; E BOX ELEMENT; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VASCULAR TISSUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84863239723     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118876109     Document Type: Article

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