The Arabidopsis thaliana gametophytic mutation gemini pollen 1 disrupts microspore polarity, division asymmetry and pollen cell fate

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3789-3799

  Park, Soon Ki ^a   Howden, Ross ^a   Twell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Asymmetric cell division; Cell fate; Cell polarity; Cytokinesis; Gemini pollen; lat52; Quartet; Tetrad analysis

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; MARKER GENE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; SPORES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0031793003     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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