Isolation of an Arabidopsis homologue of the maize homeobox Knotted-1 gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 373-378

  Granger, Cheryl L ^a   Callos, Joseph D ^a   Medford, June I ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

apical meristem; Arabidopsis; homeobox; KNOTTED; shoot meristems

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030152185     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00021797     Document Type: Article

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