Two FLX family members are non-redundantly required to establish the vernalization requirement in Arabidopsis

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lee, Joohyun ^a   Amasino, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; FAMILY; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT MODEL; UPREGULATION; VERNALIZATION; WINTER; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEASON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; FRI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ISOPROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MSI4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEASONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84893190839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3186     Document Type: Article

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