Mediator Subunit18 Controls Flowering Time and Floral Organ Identity in Arabidopsis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Zhengui ^a,b   Guan, Hexin ^a,c   Leal, Francisca ^a   Grey, Paris H ^a   Oppenheimer, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MEDIATOR COMPLEX SUBUNIT 18; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AG GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLC GENE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MED18 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VERNALIZATION;

AGAMOUS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872249053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053924     Document Type: Article

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