My favourite flowering image: the role of cytokinin as a flowering signal

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 5795-5799

  Bernier, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cytokinin; florigen; FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT); mitotic activation; organizing centre; shoot apical meristem (SAM); Sinapis alba (Sa); SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1 (SOC1); WUSCHEL (WUS)

Indexed keywords

AGL20 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYTOKININ; FLORIGEN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLOWER; FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MITOTIC ACTIVATION; ORGANIZING CENTRE; PLANT LEAF; SHOOT APICAL MERISTEM (SAM); SINAPIS; SINAPIS ALBA (SA); SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1 (SOC1); TRANSGENIC PLANT; WUSCHEL (WUS).;

CYTOKININ; FLORIGEN; FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT); MITOTIC ACTIVATION; ORGANIZING CENTRE; SHOOT APICAL MERISTEM (SAM); SINAPIS ALBA (SA); SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1 (SOC1); WUSCHEL (WUS).;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYTOKININS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MITOSIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SINAPIS;

EID: 84891522810     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err114     Document Type: Article

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