The conserved PFT1 tandem repeat is crucial for proper flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 747-754

  Rival, Pauline ^a   Press, Maximilian O ^a   Bale, Jacob ^a,b   Grancharova, Tanya ^a   Undurraga, Soledad F ^a,c   Queitsch, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PFT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOWERING; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PFT1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; SEEDLING; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD TYPE; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84908022757     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.167866     Document Type: Article

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