Development patterns of telomerase activity in barley and maize

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 621-628

  Killan, Andrzej ^a,b   Heller, Katarzyna ^a,c   Kleinhofs, Andris ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cambia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Barley; Development; Maize; Telomerase; TRAP assay

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; BARLEY; CHROMOSOME; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAIZE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERASE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HORDEUM; HUMANS; MERISTEM; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032128333     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005994629814     Document Type: Article

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