Pollen profilin function depends on interaction with proline-rich motifs

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 981-993

  Gibbon, Bryan C ^a   Zonia, Laura E ^a,c   Kovar, David R ^a   Hussey, Patrick J ^b   Staiger, Christopher J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032100347     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.6.981     Document Type: Article

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