Independent FLC mutations as causes of flowering-time variation in Arabidopsis thaliana and Capsella rubella

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 729-739

  Guo, Ya Long ^a,b   Todesco, Marco ^a   Hagmann, Jörg ^a   Das, Sandip ^a,c   Weigel, Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAPSELLA; CAPSELLA RUBELLA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS C PLANT GENE; GENE LOCUS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CAPSELLA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAPSELLA RUBELLA;

EID: 84867151417     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.143958     Document Type: Article

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