Preferential degradation of plastid DNA with preservation of mitochondrial DNA in the sperm cells Pelargonium zonale during pollen development

Protoplasma

Volumn 197, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 217-229

  Nagata, N ^a   Sodmergen, ^b   Saito, C ^a   Sakai, A ^a   Kuroiwa, H ^c   Kuroiwa, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Kyoritsu Women's Junior College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biparental inheritance; Fluorescence microscopy; Immunoelectron microscopy; Maternal inheritance; Pelargonium zonale; Pollen grains

Indexed keywords

PELARGONIUM ZONALE; T4 PHAGE;

EID: 0031011994     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01288031     Document Type: Article

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