Branching out: The ramosa pathway and the evolution of grass inflorescence morphology

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 518-522

  McSteen, Paula ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM;

BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33646840796     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.040196     Document Type: Review

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