The Plant Circadian Clock: Review of a Clockwork Arabidopsis

Endogenous Plant Rhythms

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-23

  Harmon, Frank G ^a   Imaizumi, Takato ^a   Kay, Steve A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Circadian clocks; Quantitative trait locus; TOC1 gene; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948115151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988527.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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