Lateral root development in Arabidopsis: fifty shades of auxin

Julien Lavenus1, Tatsuaki Goh, Ianto Roberts

  • 1Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR DIADE (IRD/UM2), 911 Avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier cedex 5, France.

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