Unique features of the plant life cycle and their consequences

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-379

  Walbot, Virginia ^a   Evans, Matthew M S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; FLOWERING; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPLOIDY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; GENES, PLANT; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; METAZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0038069053     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1064     Document Type: Review

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