Repression of Lateral Organ Boundary Genes by PENNYWISE and POUND-FOOLISH Is Essential for Meristem Maintenance and

Madiha Khan1, Laura Ragni1, Paul Tabb1

  • 1Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 (M.K., P.T., B.C.S., S.Ch., J.L., S.R.H.);Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-AgroParisTech, Bâtiment 2, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Centre de Versailles-Grignon, 78026 Versailles cedex, France (L.R., H.M., J.-P.R., S.Ci., V.P.); Plant Biotechnology Institute,National Research Council Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 0W9 (R.D., C.Y., D.X.);Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1 (X.K, C.D.); andMolecular Plant Physiology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, CH-3584 Utrecht, The Netherlands (M.P.).

Plant Physiology
|September 30, 2015
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