Structural and transcriptional analysis of the self-incompatibility locus of almond: Identification of a pollen-expressed F-box gene with haplotype-specific polymorphism

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 771-781

  Ushijima, Koichiro ^a   Sassa, Hidenori ^b   Dandekar, Abhaya M ^c   Gradziel, Thomas M ^c   Tao, Ryutaro ^a   Hirano, Hisashi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CYTOLOGY; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

POLLEN GENES;

CELLS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PRUNUS DULCIS; ROSACEAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 0242669337     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.009290     Document Type: Article

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