Auxin transport-feedback models of patterning in plants

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1258-1271

  Smith, Richard S ^a   Bayer, Emmanuelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auxin; Canalization; Modelling; Morphogenesis; Patterning; Phyllotaxis; Transport; Venation

Indexed keywords

INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE;

CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HORMONE; MEMBRANE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANTS;

EID: 68249093650     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01997.x     Document Type: Article

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