GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1 is essential for angiosperm fertilization

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-71

  Mori, Toshiyuki ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a   Higashiyama, Tetsuya ^b   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1 PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; DNA LIBRARY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOPHYTE; LILY; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; LILIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEM CELLS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LILIUM; LILIUM LONGIFLORUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 30344459431     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1345     Document Type: Article

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