Regulation of pollen tube growth by Rac-like GTPases

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 380, 2003, Pages 73-81

  Cheung, Alice Y ^a   Chen, Christine Y H ^a   Tao, Li Zhen ^a   Andreyeva, Tatyana ^a   Twell, David ^b   Wu, Hen Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pollen tube; Profiling of pollen Rac GTPases; Signalling of polar growth

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PROTEINS;

FERTILIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0037215685     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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