Expansins abundant in secondary xylem belong to subgroup A of the α-expansin gene family

Plant Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1552-1564

  Gray Mitsumune, Madoka ^a,d   Mellerowicz, Ewa J ^a   Abe, Hisashi ^a,e   Schrader, Jarmo ^a   Winzéll, Anders ^b   Sterky, Fredrik ^b   Blomqvist, Kristina ^a   McQueen Mason, Simon ^c   Teeri, Tuula T ^b   Sundberg, Björn ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; FUNCTIONS; PROTEINS; RNA; TISSUE;

PRIMARY CELLS; XYLEM CELLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SUBGROUP A;

EID: 3543014989     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.039321     Document Type: Article

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