Associations of maize protein bodies with cytoskeleton, membranes, and ribosomes in the endosperm of wild type and opaque-2 mutant

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-389

  Stanković, Bratislav ^a,d   Shunnosuke, Abe ^b   Azama, Kishu ^b   Shibata, Koichi ^b   Yoko, Ito ^b   Weidner, Stanislaw ^c   Davies, Eric ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Endosperm; Opaque 2; Polyribosomes; Protein bodies; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343340087     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-999-0010-3     Document Type: Article

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