Floral induction in Arabidopsis by flowering locus t requires direct repression of blade-on-petiole genes by the homeodomain protein pennywise

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2187-2199

  Andrés, Fernando ^a   Romera Branchat, Maida ^a   Martínez Gallegos, Rafael ^a   Patel, Vipul ^a   Schneeberger, Korbinian ^a   Jang, Seonghoe ^a,d,e   Altmüller, Janine ^b,c   Nürnberg, Peter ^b,c   Coupland, George ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^e AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BLR PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BOP1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BOP2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LFY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84946231428     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00960     Document Type: Article

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