Nitrogen as a key regulator of flowering in Fagus crenata: Understanding the physiological mechanism of masting by gene expression analysis

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1299-1309

  Miyazaki, Yuko ^a,b   Maruyama, Yosuke ^a   Chiba, Yukako ^a   Kobayashi, Masaki J ^c   Joseph, Benesh ^c   Shimizu, Kentaro K ^c   Mochida, Keiichi ^d   Hiura, Tsutom ^a   Kon, Hirokazu ^e   Satake, Akiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

AP1; Floral initiation; Floral transition; Flowering; FT; Gene expression; Gene network; Intermittent reproduction; LFY; Life cycle; Resource budget model

Indexed keywords

FAGUS CRENATA;

AP1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LFY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; BEECH; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; JAPAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SEASON; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATES; FAGUS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; JAPAN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; NITROGEN; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEASONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908236583     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12338     Document Type: Article

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