A conversation across generations: soma-germ cell crosstalk in plants

Xiaoqi Feng1, Daniel Zilberman, Hugh Dickinson

  • 1Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, 211 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Developmental Cell
|February 16, 2013
PubMed
Abstract

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