When paleontology and molecular genetics meet: A genetic context for the evolution of conifer ovuliferous scales

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-12

  Ruelens, Philip ^a   Geuten, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acrocona; Conifer; Development; Picea; Pseudovoltzia; Thuringiostrobus

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ACROCONA; CONIFER; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NOTE; PLANT GENE; PLANT ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT STRUCTURES; PSEUDOVOLTZIA; SPRUCE; THURINGIOSTROBUS;

ACROCONA; CONIFER; DEVELOPMENT; PICEA; PSEUDOVOLTZIA; THURINGIOSTROBUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; ORGANOGENESIS, PLANT; PICEA; PLANT STRUCTURES;

EID: 84882971371     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12417     Document Type: Note

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