'Node counting': An internal control of balanced vegetative and reproductive development

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 757-766

  Sachs, Tsvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allocation to reproduction (plants); Cumulative information; Developmental plasticity; Distance to roots; Gradual determination; Induction of flowering; Sectoriality; Shoot apex determination; Size in plants; Vegetative reproductive allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032777850     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00220.x     Document Type: Review

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