Asymmetric cell division in plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 505-537

  Scheres, Ben ^a   Benfey, Philip N ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell fate determinant; Extrinsic cue; Intrinsic cue; Polarity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033513357     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.50.1.505     Document Type: Article

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