Control of pollen tube tip growth by a Rop GTPase-dependent pathway that leads to tip-localized calcium influx

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1731-1742

  Li, Hai ^a   Lin, Yakang ^a   Heath, Rachel M ^a   Zhu, Michael X ^a   Yang, Zhenbiao ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PLANT GROWTH; ROP GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0033197508     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.9.1731     Document Type: Article

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