From flour to flower: How Polycomb group proteins influence multiple aspects of plant development

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 439-445

  Hsieh, Tzung Fu ^a   Hakim, Ofir ^b   Ohad, Nir ^b   Fischer, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0141838163     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(03)00189-4     Document Type: Review

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