ELF4遺伝子は,アラビドプシス・サリアナ (Arabidopsis thaliana) の昼夜リズムと開花時間を制御する

Mark R Doyle1, Seth J Davis, Ruth M Bastow

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

Nature
|September 6, 2002
PubMed
まとめ

EARLY FLOWERING 4 (ELF4) 遺伝子は,植物の日常時計の精度と昼間の長さを感知する上で極めて重要です. ELF4の変異は,これらのリズムを乱し,重要な花の誘導遺伝子に影響することで,早めの開花につながります.

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