Finding missing interactions of the Arabidopsis thaliana root stem cell niche gene regulatory network

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Azpeitia, Eugenio ^a,b   Weinstein, Nathan ^b   Benítez, Mariana ^a,b   Mendoza, Luis ^b   Alvarez Buylla, Elena R ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Boolean models and functions; Gene regulatory networks; Incomplete networks; Predictive modeling; Root stem cell niche

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893463329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00110     Document Type: Article

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