Altered nuclear distribution of recombination protein RAD51 in maize mutants suggests the involvement of RAD51 in meiotic homology recognition

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1807-1816

  Pawlowski, Wojciech P ^a   Golubovskaya, Inna N ^b   Zacheus Cande, W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; FOOD PRODUCTS;

HOMOLOGY;

PROTEINS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0041419280     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.012898     Document Type: Article

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