Hypervariable domains of self-incompatibility RNases mediate allele-specific pollen recognition

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1757-1766

  Matton, Daniel P ^a   Maes, Olivier ^a   Laublin, Geneviève ^a   Xike, Qin ^a   Bertrand, Charles ^a   Morse, David ^a   Cappadocia, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CATALYSIS; OUTCROSSING; POLLEN; POLLEN RECOGNITION; RIBONUCLEASE; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

SOLANUM CHACOENSE;

EID: 0031432860     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.10.1757     Document Type: Article

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