Commentary: Plant auxin biosynthesis did not originate in charophytes

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Chunyang ^a,b   Li, Si Shen ^a   Han, Guan Zhu ^b  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auxin biosynthesis; Charophytes; Comparative genomics; Horizontal gene transfer; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958522256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00158     Document Type: Note

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