Early cone setting in picea abies acrocona is associated with increased transcriptional activity of a MADS box transcription factor

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 813-823

  Uddenberg, Daniel ^a   Reimegård, Johan ^b   Clapham, David ^a   Almqvist, Curt ^c   Von Arnold, Sara ^a   Emanuelsson, Olof ^b   Sundström, Jens F ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

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EID: 84873256547     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.207746     Document Type: Article

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