Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay modulates FLM-dependent thermosensory flowering response in Arabidopsis

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Sureshkumar, Sridevi ^a   Dent, Craig ^a   Seleznev, Andrei ^a   Tasset, Celine ^a   Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLOWERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84979220633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.55     Document Type: Article

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