FLOWERING LOCUS T genes control onion bulb formation and flowering

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lee, Robyn ^a   Baldwin, Samantha ^b   Kenel, Fernand ^b   McCallum, John ^b   Macknight, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS T GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; ONION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; UPREGULATION; VERNALIZATION;

ALLIUM CEPA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONIONS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84890151945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3884     Document Type: Article

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