Convergence of developmental mutants into a single tomato model system: 'Micro-Tom' as an effective toolkit for plant development research

Plant Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Carvalho, Rogério F ^a   Campos, Marcelo L ^a   Pino, Lilian E ^a   Crestana, Simone L ^a   Zsögön, Agustin ^a   Lima, Joni E ^a   Benedito, Vagner A ^b   Peres, Lázaro E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hormonal mutants; Model organism; Photomorphogenesis; Plant development; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 79959649203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-7-18     Document Type: Article

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