Micropylar pollen tube guidance by egg apparatus 1 of maize

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5709, 2005, Pages 573-576

  Márton, Mihaela L ^a   Cordts, Simone ^a   Broadhvest, Jean ^b   Dresselhaus, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Bayer sa nv Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

GAMETOPHYTES; MICROPYLAR OPENING; POLLEN TUBES; SYNERGIDS;

CROPS;

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZMEA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM;

ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EGG; FERTILIZATION; FLOWERING; GAMETOPHYTE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; OVULE; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEA MAYS;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL WALLS; CELLS; CORN; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCEINS; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

EID: 12844258655     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104954     Document Type: Article

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