LC2 and OsVIL2 promote rice flowering by photoperoid-induced epigenetic silencing of OsLF

Molecular Plant

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 514-527

  Wang, Jun ^a   Hu, Jiang ^b   Qian, Qian ^b   Xue, Hong Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA NATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenetic control; flowering; LC2; PRC2; rice

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84875590737     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss096     Document Type: Article

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