Analysis of the WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX gene family in the conifer picea abies reveals extensive conservation as well as dynamic patterns

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hedman, Harald ^a   Zhu, Tianqing ^a   von Arnold, Sara ^a   Sohlberg, Joel J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Picea abies; Somatic embryogenesis; WOX genes

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA ABIES; PINACEAE;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPRUCE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84878680926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-89     Document Type: Article

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