MADS and More: Transcription Factors That Shape the Plant

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 754, Issue , 2011, Pages 3-18

  Melzer, Rainer ^a   Theißen, Günter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

body plan; homeodomain; MADS; plant; TCP; Transcription factor; YABBY

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 79960734001     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-154-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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