Overexpression of AtLOV1 in Switchgrass Alters Plant Architecture, Lignin Content, and Flowering Time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Bin ^a   Sathitsuksanoh, Noppadon ^b   Tang, Yuhong ^c,d   Udvardi, Michael K ^c,d   Zhang, Ji Yi ^c,d   Shen, Zhengxing ^a   Balota, Maria ^a   Harich, Kim ^a   Zhang, Percival Y H ^b   Zhao, Bingyu ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^d The BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) of US Department of Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS CELL; FLOWERING; FLOWERING TIME; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LONG VEGETATIVE PHASE ONE GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT STRUCTURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL WALL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGNIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PANICUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84871549466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047399     Document Type: Article

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