Identification of pathways directly regulated by SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE during vegetative and reproductive development in Arabidopsis

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gregis, Veronica ^a   Andrés, Fernando ^b   Sessa, Alice ^a   Guerra, Rosalinda F ^a   Simonini, Sara ^a   Mateos, Julieta L ^b   Torti, Stefano ^b   Zambelli, Federico ^a   Prazzoli, Gian Marco ^a   Bjerkan, Katrine N ^c   Grini, Paul E ^c   Pavesi, Giulio ^a   Colombo, Lucia ^a,d   Coupland, George ^b   Kater, Martin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; ChIP seq; floral development; floral transition; gene regulation; MADS box; post transcriptional regulation; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

DNA; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN AP1; PROTEIN FLC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AP1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT DNA; PROTEIN BINDING; SVP PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MADS BOX GENE; MERISTEM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SVP GENE; VEGETATIVE STAGE; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84878724670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-6-r56     Document Type: Article

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