Isolation and characterization of a rice WUSCHEL-type homeobox gene that is specifically expressed in the central cells of a quiescent center in the root apical meristem

Plant Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 429-441

  Kamiya, Noriko ^a   Nagasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Morikami, Atsushi ^b   Sato, Yutaka ^a   Matsuoka, Makoto ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Homeobox; Quiescent center (QC); Rice; Root apical meristem (RAM); Shoot apical meristem (SAM); WUSCHEL

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PROTEINS;

STEM CELLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0041851251     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01816.x     Document Type: Article

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