Differential regulation of Knotted1-like genes during establishment of the shoot apical meristem in Norway spruce (Picea abies)

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1053-1060

  Larsson, Emma ^a   Sitbon, Folke ^a   von Arnold, Sara ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

1 N naphthylphthalamic acid (NPA); Embryo patterning; KNOTTED1 like homeobox (KNOX); Norway spruce; Polar auxin transport (PAT); Shoot apical meristem (SAM)

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KN1 PROTEIN, PLANT; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRUCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL LINE; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; PHENOTYPE; PICEA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84861193945     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1224-6     Document Type: Article

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