Phyllotactic pattern and stem cell fate are determined by the Arabidopsis homeobox gene BELLRINGER

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3941-3950

  Byrne, Mary E ^a   Groover, Andrew T ^b   Fontana, Joseph R ^b   Martienssen, Robert A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b Institute of Forest Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1; BELLRINGER; BREVIPEDICELLUS; Homeobox; KNOX; Phyllotaxy; Shoot apical meristem; SHOOT MERISTEMLESS

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; GENE CONTROL; HOMEOBOX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ARABIDOPSIS; BODY PATTERNING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MERISTEM; PLANT SHOOTS; STEM CELLS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0041827272     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00620     Document Type: Review

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