Apical meristems: The plant's fountain of youth

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 961-970

  Bäurle, Isabel ^a   Laux, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MERISTEM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0141533218     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10341     Document Type: Review

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