Natural variation of C-repeat-binding factor (CBFs) genes is a major cause of divergence in freezing tolerance among a group of Arabidopsis thaliana populations along the Yangtze River in China

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1069-1080

  Kang, Juqing ^a   Zhang, Huiting ^a   Sun, Tianshu ^a   Shi, Yihao ^a   Wang, Jianqiao ^a   Zhang, Baocai ^b   Wang, Zhiheng ^a,c   Zhou, Yihua ^b   Gu, Hongya ^a,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d The National Plant Gene Research Center Beijing   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; C repeat binding factor (CBF); Freezing tolerance; Local adaptation; Natural variation; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANGIOSPERM; DIVERGENCE; FREEZING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAPPING; NATURAL SELECTION; PROTEIN;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

6 BETA GALACTINOL; 6 BETA-GALACTINOL; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; RAFFINOSE;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C-REPEAT-BINDING FACTOR (CBF); CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CHROMOSOME MAP; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LOCAL ADAPTATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NATURAL VARIATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RIVER; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YANGTZE RIVER;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; C-REPEAT-BINDING FACTOR (CBF); FREEZING TOLERANCE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL VARIATION; YANGTZE RIVER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHINA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISACCHARIDES; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RAFFINOSE; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84881226945     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12335     Document Type: Article

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