Sequence Characterization and Expression Analysis of Three APETALA2-like Genes from Saffron Crocus

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 443-452

  Tsaftaris, Athanasios S ^a,b   Pasentsis, Konstantinos ^a   Madesis, Panagiotis ^a   Argiriou, Anagnostis ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

APETALA2; Crocus sativus; Flowering; miR172

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CROCUS SATIVUS; ORYZA SATIVA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 84858294477     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-011-0355-9     Document Type: Article

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