Sexual and apomictic seed formation in Hieracium requires the plant polycomb-group gene FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT ENDOSPERM

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2372-2386

  Rodrigues, Julio C M ^a,b,c   Tucker, Matthew R ^a   Johnson, Susan D ^a   Hrmova, Maria ^b   Koltunow, Anna M G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HIERACIUM;

EID: 57749117251     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.059287     Document Type: Article

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