The MADS-box gene CUS1 is expressed during cucumber somatic embryogenesis

Plant Science

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-74

  Filipecki, Marcin K ^a   Sommer, Hans ^b   Malepszy, Stefan ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cucumis sativus L.; MADS box gene; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CUCUMBER; FRUIT; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GROWTH;

EID: 0030994338     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(97)00056-3     Document Type: Article

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