Flower development: Open questions and future directions

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1110, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-124

  Wellmer, Frank ^a   Bowman, John L ^b   Davies, Brendan ^c   Ferrándiz, Cristina ^d   Fletcher, Jennifer C ^e   Franks, Robert G ^f   Graciet, Emmanuelle ^a   Gregis, Veronica ^h   Ito, Toshiro ^h,i   Jack, Thomas P ^j   Jiao, Yuling ^k   Kater, Martin M ^g,h   Ma, Hong ^l,m   Meyerowitz, Elliot M ⁿ   Prunet, Nathanaël ^j   Riechmann, José Luis ^o  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

ⁱ Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^k FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^o INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

ABC model; Floral evolution; Floral meristems; Flower development

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; MERISTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84934439147     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9408-9_5     Document Type: Article

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