Photoperiodic Flowering in the Long-Day Plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Putterill, Joanna ^a   Stockum, Christine ^a   Warman, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arabodopsis; Circadian clock; Flowering time; FT protein; Photoperiodic flowering; Photoperiodic time measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335903.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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