Orchestration of the floral transition and floral development in arabidopsis by the bifunctional transcription factor APETALA2

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2156-2170

  Yant, Levi ^a,c   Mathieu, Johannes ^a,d   Dinh, Thanh Theresa ^b   Ott, Felix ^a   Lanz, Christa ^a   Wollmann, Heike ^a,e   Chen, Xuemei ^b   Schmid, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84979819147     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.075606     Document Type: Article

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