The model plant Medicago truncatula exhibits biparental plastid inheritance

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-91

  Matsushima, Ryo ^a   Hu, Yingchun ^b   Toyoda, Kazuhiro ^c   Sodmergen, ^b   Sakamoto, Wataru ^a  

^a Research Institute for Bioresources   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biparental inheritance; Medicago truncatula; Model plant; Plastid; Pollen grain

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; POLLEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS; POLLEN;

COTYLEDON (GENUS); MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 38349156431     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm170     Document Type: Article

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