The homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls late stamen development by regulating a jasmonate biosynthetic gene in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3516-3529

  Ito, Toshiro ^a   Ng, Kian Hong ^a   Lim, Tze Soo ^a   Yu, Hao ^a   Meyerowitz, Elliot M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCATALYSTS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CARPEL PRIMORDIA; FILAMENT FORMATION;

PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 37849044669     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.055467     Document Type: Article

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