Expression of the floral B-function gene SLM2 in female flowers of Silene latifolia infected with the smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 806-811

  Kazama, Yusuke ^a   Koizumi, Ayako ^a   Uchida, Wakana ^a,b   Ageez, Amr ^a   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dioecious plant; Flower development; Microbotryum violaceum; PISTILLATA; Silene latifolia; Smut fungus

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PISTILLATA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FLOWER; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; SILENE; USTILAGO; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SILENE; USTILAGO; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI; MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM; SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 20444405730     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci080     Document Type: Article

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