Coming of age: Orphan genes in plants

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 698-708

  Arendsee, Zebulun W ^a   Li, Ling ^a   Wurtele, Eve Syrkin ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cysteine rich secretory proteins; Orphan; Phylostratigraphy; QQS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HEREDITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC PROCESSES; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84908871922     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.07.003     Document Type: Review

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