A regulatory framework for shoot stem cell control integrating metabolic, transcriptional, and phytohormone signals

Developmental Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 438-449

  Schuster, Christoph ^a   Gaillochet, Christophe ^a   Medzihradszky, Anna ^a   Busch, Wolfgang ^b,c   Daum, Gabor ^a   Krebs, Melanie ^a   Kehle, Andreas ^b   Lohmann, Jan U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MERISTEM; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84894346712     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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