Florigen and anti-florigen – A systemic mechanism for coordinating growth and termination in flowering plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Eshed, Yuval ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Florigen; Flowering time; Mobile growth terminators; SFT SP regulatory hierarchy; Shoot architecture; Sympodial tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908192705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00465     Document Type: Review

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