Isolation of a CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER1 homolog in saffron (Crocus sativus L.): Characterization and expression analysis

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7899-7910

  Tsaftaris, Athanasios ^a,b   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^a   Kalivas, Apostolos ^a,c   Michailidou, Sofia ^a   Madesis, Panagiotis ^a   Argiriou, Anagnostis ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CENTRORADIALIS; Crocus sativus; Flowering; TERMINAL FLOWER1

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BINDING PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CEN TFL1 LIKE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS SATIVUS; FLOWERING; FT GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GEOPHYTE; MFT GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; CROCUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROCUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BINDING PROTEIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84868647203     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1634-8     Document Type: Article

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