Metacaspase-dependent programmed cell death is essential for plant embryogenesis

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Suarez, Maria F ^a   Filonova, Lada H ^a   Smertenko, Andrei ^b   Savenkov, Eugene I ^a   Clapham, David H ^a   Von Arnold, Sara ^a   Zhivotovsky, Boris ^c   Bozhkov, Peter V ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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EID: 2342620831     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.04.019     Document Type: Note

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