Endosperm and nucellus develop antagonistically in arabidopsis seeds

Plant Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1343-1360

  Xu, Wenjia ^a   Fiume, Elisa ^a   Coen, Olivier ^a   Pechoux, Christine ^b   Lepiniec, Loïc ^a   Magnani, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TT16 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84978128440     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00041     Document Type: Article

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