Root branching: Mechanisms, robustness, and plasticity

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-343

  Dastidar, Mouli Ghosh ^a   Jouannet, Virginie ^a   Maizel, Alexis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; AUXIN; BRASSINOSTEROID; GIBBERELLIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AUXIN TRANSPORT; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE MUTATION; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ROOT DEVELOPMENT; ROOT GROWTH; UPREGULATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT ROOTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84886299199     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.17     Document Type: Review

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