A compendium of methods useful for characterizing Arabidopsis pollen mutants and gametophytically-expressed genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 761-775

  Johnson Brousseau, Sheila A ^a   McCormick, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gametophyte; Mutant; Pollen germination; Quartet; Segregation distortion; Tetraspore

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MUTANTS; PHENOTYPIC ASSAYS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; CROSS BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 4544299547     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02147.x     Document Type: Review

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