Male-fertility genes expressed in male flower buds of Silene latifolia include homologs of anther-specific genes

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 403-413

  Ageez, Amr ^a,b   Kazama, Yusuke ^a   Sugiyama, Ryuji ^c   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA subtraction; Chalcone synthase like protein; Glycosyl hydrolase family 17 protein; Male fertility; Silene latifolia

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE LIKE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYL HYDROLASE 17 PROTEIN; MANDELONITRILE LYASE PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROLINE RICH PROTEIN APG PRECURSOR; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; STRICTOSIDINE SYNTHASE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOWER; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILENE LATIFOLIA; SMUT (PLANT DISEASE); Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FERTILITY; FLOWERS; GENE DOSAGE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLLEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILENE;

FUNGI; MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 33644513998     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 13417568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.80.403     Document Type: Article

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