Functional analysis of all AGAMOUS subfamily members in rice reveals their roles in reproductive organ identity determination and meristem determinacy

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2850-2863

  Dreni, Ludovico ^a   Pilatone, Alessandro ^a   Yun, Dapeng ^b   Erreni, Stefano ^a   Pajoro, Alice ^a,c   Caporali, Elisabetta ^a   Zhang, Dabing ^b   Katera, Martin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRRHINUM; ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 80051937006     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.087007     Document Type: Article

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