Ultrastructural studies of gametophytic apomicts in guinea grass (Panicum maximum) I. Differentiation of aposporous initial cell

Cytologia

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 379-389

  Guan, Liming ^a   Chen, Lanzhuang ^a,b   Terao, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Aposporous initial cell; Dyad cell degeneration; Nucellar cell; Panicum maximum; Ultrastructural analysis

Indexed keywords

PANICUM MAXIMUM;

EID: 33847021357     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: 00114545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.71.379     Document Type: Article

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