The molecular biology of cytoplasmically inherited male sterility and prospects for its engineering

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Pelletier, Georges ^a   Budar, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES; PLASTID TRANSFORMATION; SOMATIC HYBRIDISATION;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ALLOPLASMY; CELL FUSION; CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW;

CELL NUCLEUS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT INFERTILITY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDS;

EID: 34147100221     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.12.002     Document Type: Review

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