γ-Tubulin in arabidopsis: Gene sequence, immunoblot, and immunofluorescence studies

Plant Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 303-314

  Liu, Bo ^a   Joshi, Harish C ^b   Wilson, Terry J ^c   Silflow, Carolyn D ^c   Palevitz, Barry A ^a   Snustad, D Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0028371127     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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