Random chromosome segregation without meiotic arrest in both male and female meiocytes of a dmc1 mutant of Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1623-1634

  Couteau, Florence ^a   Belzile, François ^b   Horlow, Christine ^c   Grandjean, Olivier ^c   Vezon, Daniel ^c   Doutriaux, Marie Pascale ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033197695     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.9.1623     Document Type: Article

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