The significance of microspore division and division symmetry for vegetative cell-specific transcription and generative cell differentiation

Plant Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 65-74

  Eady, Colin ^a,b   Lindsey, Keith ^a   Twell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

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[No Author keywords available]

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LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0029103583     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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