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Novel spatial expression of soybean WUSCHEL in the incipient floral primordia.
Planta - 1 Mar 2011
Wong Chui E, Khor Soo Y, Bhalla Prem L, Singh Mohan B
Abstract excerpt
The homeobox transcription factor WUSCHEL (WUS) is known to play a critical role in the maintenance of the stem cell population in shoot and floral meristems of Arabidopsis thaliana. The corresponding gene is yet to be characterized in soybean, a vital legume crop. In this study, we isolated the soybean ortholog of WUS (GmWUS) and explored its possible conserved function by in situ hybridization analysis and...
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