The SPOROCYTELESS gene of Arabidopsis is required for initiation of sporogenesis and encodes a novel nuclear protein

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2108-2117

  Yang, Wei Cai ^a   Ye, De ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Sundaresan, Venkatesan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis mutant; Nuclear protein; SPL; Sporocyte; Sporogenesis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033567214     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.16.2108     Document Type: Article

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