Going with the wind - Adaptive dynamics of plant secondary meristems

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-44

  Agusti, Javier ^a   Greb, Thomas ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Branching; Cambium; Natural variation; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant meristems

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; CYTOKININ; INDOLEACETIC ACID; PHYTOHORMONE; STRIGOLACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; BUDDING; CAMBIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MERISTEM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOTROPISM; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SECONDARY GROWTH; PLANT STEM; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHOOT GROWTH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MERISTEM; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84872388307     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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