Callose localization in cell walls during meiotic and apomeiotic megasporogenesis in diploid alfalfa (Medicago spp.)

Caryologia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-56

  Barcaccia, Gianni ^a   Mazzucato, A ^b   Falcinelli, M ^a   Veronesi, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apomeiosis; Callose metabolism; Medicago sativa; Megasporogenesis; Ovule integument growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002938096     PISSN: 00087114     EISSN: 21655391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.1996.10797349     Document Type: Article

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