A reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay for gene expression studies at the single cell level

Plant Science

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-99

  Richert, Jean ^a   Kranz, Erhard ^a   Lörz, Horst ^a   Dresselhaus, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cereals; Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Maize; MCM2 3 5; RT PCR; Single cells

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030024347     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9452(95)04308-X     Document Type: Article

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