The Arabidopsis male meiocyte death1 gene encodes a PHD-finger protein that is required for male meiosis

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1281-1295

  Yang, Xiaohui ^a,b   Makaroff, Christopher A ^a   Ma, Hong ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

MEIOSIS;

CYTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0038118701     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010447     Document Type: Article

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