The rotunda2 mutants identify a role for the LEUNIG gene in vegetative leaf morphogenesis

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 402, 2004, Pages 1529-1539

  Cnops, Gerda ^a   Jover Gil, Sara ^b   Peters, Janny L ^a,c   Neyt, Pia ^a   De Block, Sabine ^a   Robles, Pedro ^b   Ponce, María R ^b   Gerats, Tom ^a,c   Micol, José L ^b   Van Lijsebettens, Mieke ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cell expansion; Leaf development; Real time reverse transcriptase PCR

Indexed keywords

LEAVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR);

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT CELL CULTURE; VEGETATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LUG PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT LEAF; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 3242715171     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh165     Document Type: Article

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