Arabidopsis BIRD zinc finger proteins jointly stabilize tissue boundaries by confining the cell fate regulator SHORT-ROOT and contributing to fate specification

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1185-1199

  Long, Yuchen ^a,b   Smet, Wouter ^a,b   Cruz Ramírez, Alfredo ^b   Castelijns, Bas ^b   De Jonge, Wim ^b   Mähönen, Ari Pekka ^c   Bouchet, Benjamin P ^b   Sanchez Perez, Gabino ^a   Akhmanova, Anna ^b   Scheres, Ben ^a,b   Blilou, Ikram ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; SCR PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MERISTEM; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 84928969727     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.132407     Document Type: Article

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