Flowering-time genes modulate meristem determinacy and growth form in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1489-1492

  Melzer, Siegbert ^a   Lens, Frederic ^b,c   Gennen, Jerôme ^a   Vanneste, Steffen ^a   Rohde, Antje ^a   Beeckman, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWERING; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 56749180608     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.253     Document Type: Article

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