Apomixis: A Developmental Perspective

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2003, Pages 547-574

  Koltunow, Anna M ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asexual; Embryo; Embryo sac; Endosperm; Seed; Sexual

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

EID: 0038676592     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.54.110901.160842     Document Type: Review

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