Abolition of the tapetum suicide program ruins microsporogenesis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 784-787

  Kawanabe, Takahiro ^a   Ariizumi, Tohru ^a   Kawai Yamada, Maki ^b   Uchimiya, Hirofumi ^b   Toriyama, Kinya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Microsporogenesis; Pollen development; Programmed cell death; Tapetum

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATBI 1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ATBI-1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; TAPETUM DETERMINANT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; TIME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; POLLEN; TIME FACTORS;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33745408122     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj039     Document Type: Article

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