Isolation of three homologous AP1-like MADS-box genes in crocus (Crocus sativus L.) and characterization of their expression

Plant Science

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1235-1243

  Tsaftaris, Athanasios S ^a,b   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^a   Iliopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Polidoros, Alexios N ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

AP1 like; Crocus sativus L.; Floral organ; MADS box genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

HOMOLOGOUS GENES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1842738071     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2003.12.037     Document Type: Article

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