Microspore Separation in the quartet 3 Mutants of Arabidopsis Is Impaired by a Defect in a Developmentally Regulated Polygalacturonase Required for Pollen Mother Cell Wall Degradation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1170-1180

  Rhee, Seung Y ^b   Osborne, Erin ^a   Poindexter, Patricia D ^a   Somerville, Chris R ^a,b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PROTEINS; YEAST;

MICROSPORE SEPARATION; MUTANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0345392710     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.028266     Document Type: Article

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