The difficult question of sex: The mating game

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 14-18

  Franklin Tong, Vernonica E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RHO GTPASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RHO GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT STEM; POLLEN; REVIEW;

ANGIOSPERMS; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; POLLEN; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036007027     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(01)00217-5     Document Type: Review

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