A robust and sensitive synthetic sensor to monitor the transcriptional output of the cytokinin signaling network in planta

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1066-1075

  Zürcher, Evelyne ^a   Tavor Deslex, Deborah ^a   Lituiev, Dmytro ^a   Enkerli, Katalin ^a   Tarr, Paul T ^b   Müller, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84874582979     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.211763     Document Type: Article

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