Conifer reproductive development involves B-type MADS-box genes with distinct and different activities in male organ primordia

Plant Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 161-169

  Sundström, Jens ^a,b   Engström, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

APETALA3; Evolution; in situ hybridization; Picea abies; PISTILLATA; Transcription factor; Yeast two hybrid system

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY);

HETERODIMERS;

GENES;

ABIES; ARABIDOPSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SPERMATOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCTION; SPRUCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; PICEA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0036324269     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01343.x     Document Type: Article

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