Navigating flower development with a new atlas

Shouling Xu1, Lilan Hong1

  • 1Institute of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Developmental Cell
|February 23, 2021
PubMed

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