A comparative study of seed yield parameters in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants and transgenics

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 488-500

  Van Daele, Inge ^a,b,c   Gonzalez, Nathalie ^a,b   Vercauteren, Ilse ^a,b   de Smet, Lien ^a,b   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b   Roldán Ruiz, Isabel ^c   Vuylsteke, Marnik ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Seed number; Seed size; Seed yield

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DESICCATION; FLOWER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DESICCATION; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84859435931     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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