Actin-Bundling Protein Isolated from Pollen Tubes of Lily: Biochemical and Immunocytochemical Characterization

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1421-1429

  Yokota, Etsuo ^a   Takahara, Kei Ichiro ^a   Shimmen, Teruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMBA; GALLUS GALLUS; LILIUM; LILIUM LONGIFLORUM;

EID: 0000806896     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.4.1421     Document Type: Article

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