An everlasting pioneer: The story of antirrhinum research

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 657-666

  Schwarz Sommer, Zsuzsanna ^a   Davies, Brendan ^b   Hudson, Andrew ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL SHAPE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLORAL WHORL; FLOWER COLOR; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOTIC MUTATION; MADS BOX; MERICLINAL CHIMERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PELORIC; PERCLINAL CHIMERA; PERIANTH; PETAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SYNTENY; TAC LIBRARY; TRANSPOSON; TRICHOME; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ANTIRRHINUM; GENES, PLANT; GENETICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PORTRAITS;

ANTIRRHINUM; ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; GAMOCHAETA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0042766479     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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