Cytokinin pathway mediates APETALA1 function in the establishment of determinate floral meristems in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6840-6845

  Han, Yingying ^a,b   Zhang, Cui ^a   Yang, Haibian ^a   Jiao, Yuling ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Axillary meristem; Indeterminacy

Indexed keywords

APETALA1 PROTEIN; CYTOKININ; CYTOKININ DEHYDROGENASE 3; CYTOKININ OXIDASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; FLORAL MERISTEM; FLORAL WHORL; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; INFLORESCENCE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; WILD TYPE;

AXILLARY MERISTEM; INDETERMINACY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYTOKININS; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84899795529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318532111     Document Type: Article

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