Natural variation in the degree of autonomous endosperm formation reveals independence and constraints of embryo growth during seed development in Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 829-841

  Ungru, Alexander ^a   Nowack, Moritz K ^a   Reymond, Matthieu ^b   Shirzadi, Reza ^c   Kumar, Manoj ^a   Biewers, Sandra ^a   Grini, Paul E ^c   Schnittger, Arp ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEED DEVELOPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CDKA1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; FERTILIZATION; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 49849098060     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.084889     Document Type: Article

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