Variation in arabidopsis flowering time associated with cis-regulatory variation in CONSTANS

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rosas, Ulises ^a   Mei, Yu ^b   Xie, Qiguang ^c   Banta, Joshua A ^a,d   Zhou, Royce W ^a   Seufferheld, Gabriela ^b   Gerard, Silvia ^a   Chou, Lucy ^a   Bhambhra, Naeha ^a   Parks, Jennifer Deane ^d   Flowers, Jonathan M ^a   McClung, C Robertson ^c   Hanzawa, Yoshie ^b   Purugganan, Michael D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CONSTANS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84898822721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4651     Document Type: Article

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