Pollen-tube guidance: Beacons from the female gametophyte

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-41

  Higashiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037297958     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00010-9     Document Type: Review

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