Molecular characterization of two brassica napus pollen-expressed genes encoding putative arabinogalactan proteins

Plant Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1231-1237

  Gerster, Jean ^a   Allard, Sharon ^a   Robert, Laurian S ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA NAPUS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

ARABINOGALACTAN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALACTAN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; STA 39 3 PROTEIN, BRASSICA NAPUS; STA 39 4 PROTEIN, BRASSICA NAPUS; STA 39-3 PROTEIN, BRASSICA NAPUS; STA 39-4 PROTEIN, BRASSICA NAPUS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GALACTANS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030112866     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.4.1231     Document Type: Article

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