Flexibility in the structure of spiral flowers and its underlying mechanisms

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Peipei ^a,b   Liao, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Wengen ^a,b   Yu, Xianxian ^a,b   Zhang, Rui ^a   Shan, Hongyan ^a   Duan, Xiaoshan ^a,b   Yao, Xu ^a,b   Kong, Hongzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; NIGELLA DAMASCENA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; NIGELLA DAMASCENA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84949668102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.188     Document Type: Article

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