Photoperiodic Regulation of Flowering Time through Periodic Histone Deacetylation of the Florigen Gene FT

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gu, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Wang, Yizhong ^a,b   He, Yuehui ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORIGEN; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEACETYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWERING; FT GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLORIGEN; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; PHOTOPERIOD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84884555029     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001649     Document Type: Article

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