Putative sugarcane FT/TFL1 genes delay flowering time and alter reproductive architecture in Arabidopsis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Coelho, Carla P ^a,b   Minow, Mark A A ^b   Chalfun Júnior, Antonio ^a   Colasanti, Joseph ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioenergy crop; Floral induction; Florigen orthologs; FT like genes; PEBP family; Saccharum spp.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902264733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00221     Document Type: Article

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