Functional and evolutionary characterization of the CONSTANS gene family in short-day photoperiodic flowering in soybean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Faqiang ^a   Price, Brian William ^a   Haider, Waseem ^a   Seufferheld, Gabriela ^a   Nelson, Randall ^a   Hanzawa, Yoshie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSTANS GENE; FLOWERING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOYBEANS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84907384620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085754     Document Type: Article

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