Plant Growth Beyond Limits

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 102-109

  Vanhaeren, Hannes ^a,b   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b   Gonzalez, Nathalie ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Gene combinations; Network engineering; Plant growth; Synthetic promoters; Targeted expression

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CROP; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLEIOTROPY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84957974777     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.012     Document Type: Review

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