Direct roles of SPEECHLESS in the specification of stomatal self-renewing cells
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ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: On Sun Lau
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-57954 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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