Ring the BELL and tie the KNOX: Roles for TALEs in gynoecium development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Arnaud, Nicolas ^a   Pautot, Véronique ^a  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Carpel; Development,Arabidopsis; TALE; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901058431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00093     Document Type: Review

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