Sperm identification in maize by fluorescence in situ hybridization

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 815-821

  Shi, Liang ^a,b   Zhu, Tong ^a,b   Lloyd Mogensen, H ^a   Keim, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0000658724     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3870284     Document Type: Article

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