Two Different Types of Homeobox Genes Exist in Apples

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 372-374

  Sakamoto, Tomoaki ^a   Kusaba, Shinnosuke ^b   Kano Murakami, Yuriko ^b   Fukumoto, Masashi ^b   Iwahori, Shuichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Homeobox gene; Malus pumila; Morphogenesis; Reverse transcription PCR; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011089266     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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