Root systems biology: Integrative modeling across scales, from gene regulatory networks to the rhizosphere

Plant Physiology

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1487-1503

  Hill, Kristine ^a   Porco, Silvana ^a   Lobet, Guillaume ^b   Zappala, Susan ^a   Mooney, Sacha ^a   Draye, Xavier ^c   Bennett, Malcolm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW; RHIZOSPHERE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOSPHERE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84888857691     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.227215     Document Type: Review

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