Root development: New meanings for root canals?

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-36

  Scheres, Ben ^a   Berleth, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENES, PLANT; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 0031987778     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(98)80124-6     Document Type: Article

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