Arabidopsis COP1 and SPA genes are essential for plant elongation but not for acceleration of flowering time in response to a low red light to far-red light ratio

Plant Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2015-2027

  Rolauffs, Sebastian ^a,b   Fackendahl, Petra ^a   Sahm, Jan ^a   Fiene, Gabriele ^a   Hoecker, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Brunel GmbH   (Germany)

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EID: 84870801085     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.207233     Document Type: Article

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