Grass flower development

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1110, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-84

  Hirano, Hiro Yuki ^a   Tanaka, Wakana ^a   Toriba, Taiyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floral organ specification; Flower development; Grass flower; Maize; Meristem; Rice; Sex determination; Spikelet; Stem cell maintenance

Indexed keywords

ANTHER; ARTICLE; CARPEL; EUDICOT; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GLUME; GRASS; HOMEOBOX; MAIZE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; OVULE DEVELOPMENT; PALEA; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEMMA; PLANT ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPIKELET; STAMEN; STEM CELL; TEOSINTE;

FLOWERS; MERISTEM; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84934437373     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9408-9_3     Document Type: Article

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