Tracheary element differentiation

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 407-433

  Turner, Simon ^a   Gallois, Patrick ^a   Brown, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microtubules; Programmed cell death; Secondary cell wall; Xylem

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; WOOD; XYLEM;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL WALL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 34250223550     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105236     Document Type: Review

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