In vitro culture promotes partial autonomous endosperm development in unfertilized ovules of wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana var. Columbia

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-36

  Rojek, Joanna ^a   Kuta, Elzbieta ^b   Bohdanowicz, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Autonomous endosperm; In vitro culture; Unpollinated ovaries

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 21344437747     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00497-005-0246-z     Document Type: Article

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