Transgenic tobacco over-expressing a homeobox gene shows a developmental interaction between leaf morphogenesis and phyllotaxy

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 657-667

  Tamaoki, Masanori ^a,c   Nishimura, Asuka ^a   Aida, Mitsuhiro ^b   Tasaka, Masao ^b   Matsuoka, Makoto ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Homeobox gene; Micro surgical experiment; Nicotiana tabacum; Phyllotaxy; Plastochron ratio; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

HOMEOBOX; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0033166090     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029590     Document Type: Article

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