Activator mutagenesis of the Pink scutellum1/viviparous7 locus of maize

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 874-884

  Singh, Manjit ^a   Lewis, Paul E ^a   Hardeman, Kristine ^b   Bai, Ling ^a   Rose, Jocelyn K C ^c   Mazourek, Michael ^c   Chomet, Paul ^b   Brutnell, Thomas P ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Monsanto Mystic Research   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

GENE-TAGGING EXPERIMENTS;

CROPS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037392872     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010249     Document Type: Article

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