Vegetative phase change and shoot maturation in plants

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 105, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-152

  Poethig, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flowering time; Heteroblasty; Heterochrony; MiR156; MiR172; Phase change; SBP; Shoot morphogenesis; SPL

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FLOWERING TIME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROBLASTY; HETEROCHRONY; METABOLISM; MIR156; MIR172; MORPHOGENESIS; PHASE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SBP; SHOOT MORPHOGENESIS; SPL;

FLOWERING TIME; HETEROBLASTY; HETEROCHRONY; MIR156; MIR172; PHASE CHANGE; SBP; SHOOT MORPHOGENESIS; SPL;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT SHOOTS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84881632501     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396968-2.00005-1     Document Type: Chapter

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