The DAL10 gene from Norway spruce (Picea abies) belongs to a potentially gymnosperm-specific subclass of MADS-box genes and is specifically active in seed cones and pollen cones

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 551-561

  Carlsbecker, Annelie ^a   Sundström, Jens ^a,b   Tandre, Karolina ^a,c   Englund, Marie ^a   Kvarnheden, Anders ^a,d   Johanson, Urban ^a,e   Engström, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

GYMNOSPERM;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPRUCE; SWEDEN; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN;

ABIES; ARABIDOPSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; GNETOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0345581063     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03060.x     Document Type: Article

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