Evolutionarily conserved repressive activity of WOX proteins mediates leaf blade outgrowth and floral organ development in plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 366-371

  Lin, Hao ^a   Niu, Lifang ^a   McHale, Neil A ^b   Ohme Takagi, Masaru ^c   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^d   Tadege, Million ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STENOFOLIA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; LEAF LAMINA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84871977453     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215376110     Document Type: Article

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