Isolation, characterization, and expression analysis of an NAP-like cDNA from crocus (Crocus sativus L.)

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 654-663

  Kalivas, Apostolos ^a   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^a   Argiriou, Anagnostis ^a   Tsaftaris, Athanasios S ^a,b  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crocus sativus; NAC; NAP; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 77954424178     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-010-0197-x     Document Type: Article

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