The micro-tom model system as a tool to discover novel hormonal functions and interactions

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-270

  Campos, Marcelo Lattarulo ^a   Carvalho, Rogério Falleiros ^a   Benedito, Vagner Augusto ^b   Peres, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Brassinosteroids; Hormones; Jasmonates; Plant model; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 77955009830     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.3.10622     Document Type: Article

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