Multiple loci and genetic interactions involving flowering time genes regulate stem branching among natural variants of Arabidopsis

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 843-857

  Huang, Xueqing ^a,b   Ding, Jia ^b   Effgen, Sigi ^b   Turck, Franziska ^b   Koornneef, Maarten ^b,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axillary meristems; Epistasis; Flowering time; Natural variation; QTL analysis

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; FRI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; EPISTASIS; FLOWERING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; SHOOT; STEM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AXILLARY MERISTEMS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; EPISTASIS; FLOWER; FLOWERING TIME; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NATURAL VARIATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT STEM; QTL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AXILLARY MERISTEMS; EPISTASIS; FLOWERING TIME; NATURAL VARIATION; QTL ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLANT STEMS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84880319873     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12306     Document Type: Article

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