Genome-wide analysis of NBS-LRR-encoding genes in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 809-834

  Meyers, Blake C ^a,b   Kozik, Alexander ^a   Griego, Alyssa ^a   Kuang, Hanhui ^a   Michelmore, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PROTEINS;

GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037390933     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.009308     Document Type: Article

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