pur4 mutations are lethal to the male, but not the female, gametophyte and affect sporophyte development in Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 650-660

  Berthomé, Richard ^a,b   Thomasset, Muriel ^a,c   Maene, Marion ^a,d   Bourgeois, Nathalie ^a   Froger, Nicole ^a   Budar, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

MESSENGER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LETHAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 48549086673     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.120014     Document Type: Article

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