Specification and maintenance of the floral meristem: Interactions between positively-acting promoters of flowering and negative regulators

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1835-1843

  Vijayraghavan, Usha ^a   Prasad, Kalika ^a   Meyerowitz, Elliot ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Floral activators; Floral mesitem specification; Floral repressors

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 31644440100     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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