Genetic and molecular identification of genes required for female gametophyte development and function in Arabidopsis

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 603-614

  Pagnussat, Gabriela C ^a   Yu, Hee Ju ^a,b   Ngo, Quy A ^a   Rajani, Sarojam ^a   Mayalagu, Sevugan ^a,d   Johnson, Cameron S ^a   Capron, Arnaud ^a   Xie, Li Fen ^b,d   Ye, De ^c,e   Sundaresan, Venkatesan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Embryo sac development; Female gametophyte; Fertilization; Maternal effect; Transposon insertion mutants

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; FLOWERING; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPOROPHYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 14044250209     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01595     Document Type: Article

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