Arabidopsis Type B Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol Synthase Genes Are Expressed during Pollen Tube Growth and Induced by Phosphate Starvation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 640-648

  Kobayashi, Koichi ^a   Awai, Koichiro ^a,b   Takamiya, Ken Ichiro ^a   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; GLYCEROL; LIPIDS;

CHLOROPLASTS; POLLEN GRAINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1342265966     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.032656     Document Type: Article

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