EXS, a putative LRR receptor kinase, regulates male germline cell number and tapetal identity and promotes seed development in Arabidopsis

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1718-1727

  Canales, Claudia ^a   Bhatt, Anuj M ^a   Scott, Rod ^b   Dickinson, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYPOCOTYL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ENDOTHECIUM;

EID: 0037108320     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01151-X     Document Type: Article

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