STENOFOLIA regulates blade outgrowth and leaf vascular patterning in medicago truncatula and nicotiana sylvestris

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2125-2142

  Tadege, Million ^a,b   Lin, Hao ^b   Bedair, Mohamed ^a   Berbel, Ana ^c   Wen, Jiangqi ^a   Rojas, Clemencia M ^a   Niu, Lifang ^b   Tang, Yuhong ^a   Sumner, Lloyd ^a   Ratet, Pascal ^d   McHale, Neil A ^e   Madueño, Francisco ^c   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDONEAE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79960875239     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.085340     Document Type: Article

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