Arabidopsis REGULATOR OF AXILLARY MERISTEMS1 controls a leaf axil stem cell niche and modulates vegetative development

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 598-611

  Keller, Thomas ^a   Abbott, Jessica ^a   Moritz, Thomas ^b   Doerner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; VEGETATION;

PLANT STATURE; SECONDARY GROWTH AXES; SHOOT BRANCHING; STEM CELLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BRANCHES; GENES; GROWTH; MERISTEMS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CUC2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GIBBERELLIC ACID; GIBBERELLIN; PROTEIN C MYB; RAX1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; STEM CELL; TRANSACTIVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GIBBERELLINS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33646845257     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.038588     Document Type: Article

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