The art and design of genetic screens: Maize

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-203

  Candela, Héctor ^a   Hake, Sarah ^a  

^a PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; CROP; CYTOGENETICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; LIFE CYCLE; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME;

ZEA MAYS;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; MUTAGENESIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 40449087380     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2291     Document Type: Review

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