Role of petunia pMADS3 in determination of floral organ and meristem identity, as revealed by its loss of function

Plant Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 115-127

  Kapoor, Meenu ^a   Tsuda, Shinzo ^b   Tanaka, Yoshikazu ^b   Mayama, Tomoko ^c   Okuyama, Yohei ^c   Tsuchimoto, Suguru ^c   Takatsuji, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Class C; Gene silencing; Inflorescence; MADS box; Petunia

Indexed keywords

GENES; YEAST;

HOMEOTIC CONVERSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PETUNIA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARABIDOPSIS; PETUNIA;

EID: 0036794696     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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