Endosperm: Food for humankind and fodder for scientific discoveries

New Phytologist

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 290-305

  Li, Jing ^a   Berger, Frédéric ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE;

EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FLOWERING; FOOD PRODUCTION; GENOME; SEED;

ENDOSPERM; FOOD; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

ENDOSPERM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FOOD; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84862519067     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04182.x     Document Type: Review

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