Flowering responses to seasonal cues: What's new?

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages 120-127

  Romera Branchat, Maida ^a   Andrés, Fernando ^a   Coupland, George ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD TEMPERATURE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEASONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84904917690     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.07.006     Document Type: Review

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