Flowering locus C’s lessons: Conserved chromatin switches underpinning developmental timing and adaptation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1237-1245

  Hepworth, Jo ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84939204953     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00496     Document Type: Article

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