MADS-Box Protein Complexes Control Carpel and Ovule Development in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2603-2611

  Favaro, Rebecca ^a,c   Pinyopich, Anusak ^b   Battaglia, Raffaella ^a   Kooiker, Maarten ^a   Borghi, Lorenzo ^a   Ditta, Gary ^b   Yanofsky, Martin F ^b   Kater, Martin M ^a   Colombo, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

MULTIMERIC COMPLEXES; MUTANTS; ORGAN TRANSFORMATIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0345376987     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.015123     Document Type: Article

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