A distal CCAAT/NUCLEAR FACTOR Y complex promotes chromatin looping at the FLOWERING LOCUS T promoter and regulates the timing of flowering in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1009-1017

  Cao, Shuanghe ^a   Kumimoto, Roderick W ^a   Gnesutta, Nerina ^b   Calogero, Alessandra M ^b   Mantovani, Roberto ^b   Holt III, Ben F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; CHROMATIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; FLOWER; GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; CHROMATIN; FLOWERS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84899154279     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.120352     Document Type: Article

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