Ectopic Expression of a WRKY Homolog from Glycine soja Alters Flowering Time in Arabidopsis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Luo, Xiao ^a,b   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Liu, Baohui ^b   Zhu, Dan ^a   Bai, Xi ^a   Cai, Hua ^a   Ji, Wei ^a   Cao, Lei ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Wang, Mingchao ^a   Ding, Xiaodong ^c   Zhu, Yanming ^a  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG GENE; AP1 GENE; AP3 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CO GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLC GENE; FLOWERING; FT GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PI GENE; PLANT GENE; SEP3 GENE; SOC1 GENE; SOYBEAN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERNALIZATION; WILD TYPE; WRKY20 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84883096016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073295     Document Type: Article

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