Isolation and functional characterization of JcFT, a FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) homologous gene from the biofuel plant Jatropha curcas

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Li, Chaoqiong ^a,b   Luo, Li ^c   Fu, Qiantang ^a   Niu, Longjian ^a,d   Xu, Zeng Fu ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Early flowering; Florigen; FLOWERING LOCUS T; Physic nut

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; JATROPHA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHLOEM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOFUELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; JATROPHA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHLOEM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84901636720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-125     Document Type: Article

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