An overview of natural variation studies in the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-429

  Anwer, Muhammad Usman ^a   Davis, Seth Jon ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Arabidopsis; Circadian clocks; Natural variation; QTL

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PROTEIN MYB;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEACETYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMOZYGOSITY; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84879166942     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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