The MdTFL1 gene of apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) reduces vegetative growth and generation time

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1288-1301

  Flachowsky, Henryk ^a   Szankowski, Iris ^b   Waidmann, Sascha ^c   Peil, Andreas ^a   Tränkner, Conny ^d   Hanke, Magda Viola ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

early flowering; Malus; perennial lifecycle; silencing; TERMINAL FLOWER 1; transgenic

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CLONE; CULTIVATION; DICOTYLEDON; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERATION TIME; GRAFTING; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; SEEDLING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALUS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POLLINATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEEDLING; TIME; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MALUS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLINATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84867752192     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps080     Document Type: Article

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