The Arabidopsis MALE STERILITY 2 protein shares similarity with reductases in elongation/condensation complexes

Plant Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 615-623

  Aarts, Mark G M ^a   Hodge, Rachel ^b   Kalantidis, Kriton ^c   Florack, Dion ^a   Wilson, Zoe A ^c   Mulligan, Bernard J ^c   Stiekema, Willem J ^a   Scott, Rod ^b   Pereira, Andy ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0031239534     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.d01-8.x     Document Type: Article

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