Architecture of floral branch systems in maize and related grasses

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7054, 2005, Pages 1119-1126

  Vollbrecht, Erik ^a,c   Springer, Patricia S ^a,d   Goh, Lindee ^a,e   Buckler IV, Edward S ^b   Martienssen, Robert ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TISSUE; VEGETATION;

FLOWER-BEARING BRANCH SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLORESCENCE ARCHITECTURE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EVOLUTION; GRASS; MAIZE;

APICAL MERISTEM; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DOMESTICATION; FLOWER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GRASS; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMOSA1 GENE; RAMOSA2 GENE; RICE; SORGHUM;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; POACEAE; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; SORGHUM (GENUS); ZEA MAYS;

EID: 24144490046     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03892     Document Type: Article

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