Cytokinin and WUSCHEL tie the knot around plant stem cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16016-16017

  Sablowski, Robert ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; CYTOKININ; PHYTOHORMONE; PROTEIN CLV1; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; WUS GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT STEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 70349485719     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909300106     Document Type: Note

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