Modulation of Ambient Temperature-Dependent Flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana by Natural Variation of FLOWERING LOCUS M

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Lutz, Ulrich ^a   Posé, David ^b   Pfeifer, Matthias ^c   Gundlach, Heidrun ^c   Hagmann, Jörg ^b   Wang, Congmao ^b   Weigel, Detlef ^b   Mayer, Klaus F X ^c   Schmid, Markus ^b   Schwechheimer, Claus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLM GENE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLOBAL WARMING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84946594200     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005588     Document Type: Article

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