FLOWERING LOCUS C in monocots and the tandem origin of angiosperm-specific MADS-box genes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ruelens, Philip ^a   De Maagd, Ruud A ^b   Proost, Sebastian ^c,d   Theißen, Günter ^e   Geuten, Koen ^a   Kaufmann, Kerstin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; CEREAL; CLADISTICS; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MONOCOTYLEDON; VERNALIZATION;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CEREAL; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FLOWERING; GENOME; MONOCOT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT REPRODUCTION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEED PLANT; SYNTENY; TANDEM REPEAT; VERNALIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CEREALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84883129653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3280     Document Type: Article

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