Delayed activation of the paternal genome during seed development

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6773, 2000, Pages 91-94

  Vielle Calzada, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Baskar, Ramamurthy ^a,c   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a,c  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0034594939     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35003595     Document Type: Article

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