Plant hormones and homeoboxes: Bridging the gap?

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-404

  Hay, Angela ^a   Craft, Judith ^a   Tsiantis, Miltos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; CYTOKININ; ETHYLENE; GIBBERELLIN; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KNOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICAL MERISTEM; HOMEOBOX; KNOX GENE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; REVIEW; SHOOT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GIBBERELLINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 1842664353     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20016     Document Type: Review

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