Control of reproductive floral organ identity specification in arabidopsis by the C function regulator AGAMOUS

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2482-2503

  Ó'Maoiléidigh, Diarmuid S ^a   Wuest, Samuel E ^a,d   Rae, Liina ^a   Raganelli, Andrea ^a   Ryan, Patrick T ^a   Kwaśniewska, Kamila ^a   Das, Pradeep ^b   Lohan, Amanda J ^c   Loftus, Brendan ^c   Graciet, Emmanuelle ^a   Wellmer, Frank ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

APETALA 3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS AGAMOUS PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PISTILLATA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT LEAF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRICHOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGAMOUS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRICHOMES;

EID: 84883188046     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.113209     Document Type: Article

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