Synchronization of the flowering transition by the tomato terminating flower gene

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1393-1398

  MacAlister, Cora A ^a   Park, Soon Ju ^a   Jiang, Ke ^a   Marcel, Fabien ^b   Bendahmane, Abdelhafid ^b   Izkovich, Yinon ^c   Eshed, Yuval ^c   Lippman, Zachary B ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANANTHA GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSIFLORA GENE; FLOWERING; FRUITFULL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETUNIA; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPALLATA GENE; SOLANACEAE; TERMINATING FLOWER GENE; TOBACCO; TOMATO;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MERISTEM; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PETUNIA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 84870523894     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2465     Document Type: Article

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