LRR-containing receptors regulating plant development and defense

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-261

  Dievart, Anne ^a   Clark, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LEUCINE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0842344612     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00998     Document Type: Review

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