Herbs and secondary woodiness - keeping up the cambial habit

New Phytologist

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-5

  Rowe, Nick ^a,b   Paul Victor, Cloé ^a,b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cambium; Evolution; Genes; Growth forms; Herbs; Heterochrony; Secondary woodiness

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; NOTE; PLANT STEM; WOOD;

ARABIDOPSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT STEMS; WOOD;

EID: 82955170714     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03980.x     Document Type: Note

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