Association of γ-tubulin with kinetochore/centromeric region of plant chromosomes

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 751-757

  Binarová, Pavla ^a,d   Hause, Bettina ^b   Doležel, Jaroslav ^a   Dráber, Pavel ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENTRIOLAR MITOTIC SPINDLE; AMIPROFOS METHYL; CENTROMERE; COLCHICINE; CYTOSKELETON; GAMMA TUBULIN; ISOLATION; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; ORYZALIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CELL; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; TUBULIN;

EID: 0031875212     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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