SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control dispersal in Arabidopsis

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6779, 2000, Pages 766-770

  Liljegren, Sarah J ^a   Ditta, Gary S ^a   Eshed, Yuval ^b   Savidge, Beth ^a,c   Bowmant, John L ^b   Yanofsky, Martin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Calgene   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROP; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LIGNIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0034643351     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35008089     Document Type: Article

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