Molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 150-154

  McCubbin, Andrew G ^a   Kao, Teh Hui ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; RIBONUCLEASE;

BRASSICA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

BRASSICA; PAPAVER RHOEAS; PHALARIS COERULESCENS;

EID: 0029976384     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(96)80005-X     Document Type: Article

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