Cell-to-cell movement of green fluorescent protein reveals post-phloem transport in the outer integument and identifies symplastic domains in Arabidopsis seeds and embryos

Plant Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 701-712

  Stadler, Ruth ^a   Lauterbach, Christian ^a,b   Sauer, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

ARABIDOPSIS SEEDS; EMBRYO CELL LAYERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SYMPLASTIC DOMAINS;

PROTEINS;

EMBRYOS; FLUORESCENCE; PHLOEM; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

EID: 26844440306     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.065607     Document Type: Article

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