Fine Mapping Links the FTa1 Flowering Time Regulator to the Dominant Spring1 Locus in Medicago

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yeoh, Chin Chin ^a   Balcerowicz, Martin ^a   Zhang, Lulu ^a   Jaudal, Mauren ^a   Brocard, Lysiane ^b   Ratet, Pascal ^b   Putterill, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BARREL MEDIC; CHROMOSOME 7; CONSTANS GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS TA1 GENE; FRUITFULLB GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; MARKER GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPRING1 GENE; SUPPRESSOR OF OVER EXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1A GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 84872151408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053467     Document Type: Article

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