Morphogenic regulators Baby boom and Wuschel improve monocot transformation

Plant Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1998-2015

  Lowe, Keith ^a   Wu, Emily ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Hoerster, George ^a   Hastings, Craig ^a   Cho, Myeong Je ^b   Scelonge, Chris ^a   Lenderts, Brian ^a   Chamberlin, Mark ^a   Cushatt, Josh ^a   Wang, Lijuan ^a   Ryan, Larisa ^a   Khan, Tanveer ^c   Chow Yiu, Julia ^a   Hua, Wei ^a   Yu, Maryanne ^b   Banh, Jenny ^b   Bao, Zhongmeng ^a   Brink, Kent ^a   Igo, Elizabeth ^a   Rudrappa, Bhojaraja ^a   Shamseer, P M ^a   Bruce, Wes ^d   Newman, Lisa ^a   Shen, Bo ^a   Zheng, Peizhong ^e   Bidney, Dennis ^a   Falco, Carl ^a   Register, Jim ^a   Zhao, Zuo Yu ^a   Xu, Deping ^a   Jones, Todd ^a   Gordon Kamm, William ^a   more..

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b DuPont Pioneer   (United States)

^c Fruhling Biosciences   (India)

^d BASF CORPORATION   (United States)

^e DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

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EID: 84991355188     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00124     Document Type: Article

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