Cloning and characterization of apple class B MADS-box genes including a novel AP3 homologue MdTM6

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 208-215

  Kitahara, Kentaro ^a   Ohtsubo, Tomomi ^a   Soejima, Junichi ^b   Matsumoto, Shogo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Class B; MADS box; Malus domestica; TM6

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; MALUS; MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 2942711779     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs.73.208     Document Type: Article

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