Spatial and temporal tracing of vessel differentiation in young Arabidopsis seedlings by the expression of an immature tracheary element-specific promoter

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1529-1536

  Pyo, Hyunjin ^a,b   Demura, Taku ^b   Fukuda, Hiroo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cysteine protease; Metaxylem vessel; Programmed cell death; Protoxylem vessel; Tracheary element differentiation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ILEX COOKII; ZINNIA;

EID: 9244233398     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch175     Document Type: Article

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