Fertilization in plants: Is calcium a key player?

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-253

  Dumas, Christian ^a   Gaude, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Calcium; Fertilization; Plants

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ALGA; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FERTILIZATION; FLOWERING; IN VITRO STUDY; MAIZE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PISTIL STIGMA; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLINATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; TARGET CELL; TORENIA;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TORENIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33745920753     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2006.02.005     Document Type: Review

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