Some events of mitosis and cytokinesis in the generative cell of Ornithogalum virens L.

Planta

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 202-208

  Banaś, Malgorzata ^a   Tirlapur, Uday Krishna ^b   Charzyńska, Maria ^a   Cresti, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokinesis; Generative cell; Mitosis Ornithogalum; Phragmoplast; Pollen

Indexed keywords

ORNITHOGALUM VIRENS;

EID: 0029833085     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00196560     Document Type: Article

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