Natural Variation in Leaf Morphology Results from Mutation of a Novel KNOX Gene

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 672-677

  Kimura, Seisuke ^a   Koenig, Daniel ^a   Kang, Julie ^a   Yoong, Fei Yian ^a   Sinha, Neelima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KNOX1 PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLANUM;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLANUM;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 43049137662     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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