Expansins: Ever-expanding numbers and functions

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 527-532

  Lee, Yi ^a   Choi, Dongsu ^a   Kende, Hans ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; POACEAE;

EID: 0034773115     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(00)00211-9     Document Type: Review

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