Silencing of phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase results in temperature-sensitive male sterility and salt hypersensitivity in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2031-2043

  Mou, Zhonglin ^a   Wang, Xiaoqun ^a   Fu, Zhiming ^a   Dai, Ya ^a   Han, Chang ^a   Ouyang, Jian ^a   Bao, Fang ^a   Hu, Yuxin ^a   Li, Jiayang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYMES; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; RNA;

MALE STERILITY;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0036741576     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.001701     Document Type: Article

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