Ontogeny of the maize shoot apical meristem

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3219-3234

  Takacs, Elizabeth M ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Du, Chuanlong ^b   Ponnala, Lalit ^b   Janick Buckner, Diane ^a   Yu, Jianming ^c   Muehlbauer, Gary J ^d   Schnable, Patrick S ^e   Timmermans, Marja C P ^f   Sun, Qi ^g   Nettleton, Dan ^a   Scanlon, Michael J ^a,b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84866979307     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.099614     Document Type: Article

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