A novel allele of FILAMENTOUS FLOWER reveals new insights on the link between inflorescence and floral meristem organization and flower morphogenesis

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lugassi, Nitsan ^a   Nakayama, Naomi ^b,c   Bochnik, Rachel ^a   Zik, Moriyah ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

AFO PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFLORESCENCE; MERISTEM; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INFLORESCENCE; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77953953895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-131     Document Type: Article

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