ATX-1, an Arabidopsis homolog of trithorax, activates flower homeotic genes

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 627-637

  Alvarez Venegas, Raul ^a   Pien, Stephane ^b,d   Sadder, Monther ^a,e   Witmer, Xiaohong ^c   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^b   Avramova, Zoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e AL AHLIYYA AMMAN UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0344088338     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00243-4     Document Type: Article

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