Amyloplasts and vacuolar membrane dynamics in the living graviperceptive cell of the arabidopsis inflorescence stem

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 548-558

  Saito, Chieko ^a   Morita, Miyo T ^a   Kato, Takehide ^a   Tasaka, Masao ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GRAVITATION; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

GRAVITY-PERCEPTIVE CELLS; IN VIVO ANALYSIS; VACUOLAR MEMBRANES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 15744393933     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.026138     Document Type: Article

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