The role of PENNYWISE and POUND-FOOLISH in the maintenance of the shoot apical meristem in arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 605-614

  Ung, Nolan ^a   Lal, Shruti ^b   Smith, Harley M S ^a,b  

^a Institute for Integrative Genome Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79958044113     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.171462     Document Type: Article

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