Molecular cloning and mRNA localization of tomato pollen profilin

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 699-707

  Yu, Long Xi ^a   Nasrallah, June ^a   Valenta, Rudolf ^b   Parthasarathy, M V ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Gene expression; In situ hybridization; Profilin; RT PCR; Tomato pollen

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BIRCH; DNA STRUCTURE; MAIZE; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROFILINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHLEUM PRATENSE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032033087     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005971327353     Document Type: Article

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