The genetic control of apomixis: Asexual seed formation

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 441-450

  Hand, Melanie L ^a   Koltunow, Anna M G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; APOMIXIS; BREEDING; CLONE; CROP; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT GENE;

APOMIXIS; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; PLANTS; SEEDS;

EID: 84902438808     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.163105     Document Type: Review

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