A comparative ultrastructural analysis of exine pattern development in wild-type Arabidopsis and a mutant defective in pattern formation

Protoplasma

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-65

  Paxson Sowders, D M ^a   Owen, H A ^b   Makaroff, C A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Exine patterning; Male sterile mutants; Plasma membrane; Pollen development; Sporopollenin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0030873438     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01282131     Document Type: Article

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