A Conserved Genetic Pathway Determines Inflorescence Architecture in Arabidopsis and Rice

Developmental Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 612-622

  Liu, Chang ^a,b   Teo, Zhi Wei Norman ^a   Bi, Yang ^a,c   Song, Shiyong ^a   Xi, Wanyan ^a   Yang, Xiaobei ^a   Yin, Zhongchao ^a   Yu, Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAMOUS LIKE 24 GENE; ANGIOSPERM; APETALA1 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE LOCUS; INFLORESCENCE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SEPALLATA 4 GENE; SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE GENE; SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1 GENE; TERMINAL FLOWER1 GENE;

AGAMOUS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INFLORESCENCE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; ORYZA SATIVA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84875606935     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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