Phytochromes and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1374, 1998, Pages 1445-1453

  Whitelam, Garry C ^a   Patel, Samita ^a   Devlin, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Light; Mutant; Photomorphogenesis; Phytochrome

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032578424     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0300     Document Type: Article

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