Expression of fcft1, a flowering locus t-like gene, is regulated by light and associated with inflorescence differentiation in fig (ficus carica L.)

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ikegami, Hidetoshi ^a   Nogata, Hitoshi ^b   Inoue, Yoshiaki ^a   Himeno, Shuichi ^a   Yakushiji, Hiroshi ^c   Hirata, Chiharu ^a   Hirashima, Keita ^a   Mori, Masashi ^d   Awamura, Mitsuo ^a   Nakahara, Takao ^a  

^a FUKUOKA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Control Station for Pests   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bearing habit; Floral differentiation; Flowering locus T; Light regulation

Indexed keywords

CARICA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); FICUS CARICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA SEQUENCE; FICUS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFLORESCENCE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FICUS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INFLORESCENCE; LIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

EID: 84890277348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-216     Document Type: Article

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