The phytochrome-interacting VASCULAR PLANT ONE-ZINC FINGER1 and VOZ2 redundantly regulate flowering in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3248-3263

  Yasui, Yukiko ^a   Mukougawa, Keiko ^a,b   Uemoto, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yokofuji, Akira ^a   Suzuri, Ryota ^a   Nishitani, Aiko ^a   Kohchia, Takayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84867008598     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.101915     Document Type: Article

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