Imprinting and seed development

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Gehring, Mary ^a   Choi, Yeonhee ^a   Fischer, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; SPERMATOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 2942651120     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.017988     Document Type: Review

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