The SHOOT MERISTEMLESS gene is required for maintenance of undifferentiated cells in Arabidopsis shoot and floral meristems and acts at a different regulatory level than the meristem genes WUSCHEL and ZWILLE

Plant Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 967-979

  Endrizzi, Karin ^a   Moussian, Bernard ^a   Haecker, Achim ^a   Levin, Joshua Z ^b   Laux, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; STM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0030454898     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.10060967.x     Document Type: Article

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