The central cell plays a critical role in pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3563-3577

  Chen, Yan Hong ^a,b   Li, Hong Ju ^a,b   Shi, Dong Qiao ^a   Yuan, Li ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a   Sreenivasan, Rajini ^c   Baskar, Ramarmurthy ^d,e   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^d,e   Yang, Wei Cai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; YEAST;

FLOWERING PLANTS; MALE GAMETOPHYTE; POLLEN TUBE;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 37849006500     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.053967     Document Type: Article

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