Pleiotropy, redundancy and the evolution of flowers

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 297-301

  Albert, Victor A ^a   Oppenheimer, David G ^b   Lindqvist, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LFY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GYMNOSPERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT STEM;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GYMNOSPERMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036631706     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02300-2     Document Type: Review

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