The knotted1-like homeobox gene BREVIPEDICELLUS regulates cell differentiation by modulating metabolic pathways

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2088-2093

  Mele, Giovanni ^a,b   Ori, Naomi ^b,c   Sato, Yutaka ^b,d   Hake, Sarah ^a,b  

^a PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brevipedicellus; Homeobox; Knat1; Lignin; Meristem; Microarray

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREVIPEDICELLUS GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; INTERNODE; KNOX GENE; LIGNIFICATION; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIGNIN; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0041319633     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1120003     Document Type: Article

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