Cloning and characterization of MS5 from Arabidopsis: A gene critical in male meiosis

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-356

  Glover, Julie ^a,b   Grelon, Mathilde ^a,c   Craig, Stuart ^a   Chaudhury, Abdul ^a   Dennis, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Ctr Applic Molec Biol Intl A   (Australia)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLONING; FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TUBULIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032144217     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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