Linker histones play a role in male meiosis and the development of pollen grains in tobacco

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2317-2329

  Prymakowska Bosak, Marta ^a,b   Przewłoka, Marcin R ^b   Ślusarczyk, Joanna ^b   Kuraś, Mieczysław ^b   Lichota, Jacek ^b   Kiliańczyk, Beata ^b,c   Jerzmanowski, Andrzej ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GAMETE; HISTONE; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; POLLEN GRAIN; STOICHIOMETRY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0342905429     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.12.2317     Document Type: Article

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