Both vegetative and reproductive actin isovariants complement the stunted root hair phenotype of the arabidopsis act2-1 mutation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 2199-2209

  Gilliland, Laura U ^a   Kandasamy, Muthugapatti K ^a   Pawloski, Lucia C ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; TISSUE;

OSMOLARITY; PHENOTYPES; VEGETATIVE ORGANS;

MUTAGENESIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0036918919     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.014068     Document Type: Article

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