Endosperm development: Dynamic processes and cellular innovations underlying sibling altruism

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 579-593

  Becraft, Philip W ^a   Gutierrez Marcos, Jose ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1, 4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ABSCISIC ACID; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; GIBBERELLIN; GLYCOGEN DEBRANCHING ENZYME; PROLAMIN; PROTEIN VP1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SEED STORAGE PROTEIN; STARCH; STARCH SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALEURONE; ALTRUISM; AMYLOPLAST; APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CEREAL; DORMANCY; EMBRYO SURROUNDING CELL; ENDOREDUPLICATION; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEEDLING; SIBLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARCHY ENDOSPERM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSFER CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREALS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; STARCH;

EID: 84870771237     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.31     Document Type: Article

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