The Arabidopsis thaliana ACT4/ACT12 actin gene subclass is strongly expressed throughout pollen development

Plant Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-202

  Huang, Shurong ^a   An, Yong Qiang ^a   McDowell, John M ^a   McKinney, Elizabeth C ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACTINS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0030210462     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.10020189.x     Document Type: Review

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