The Formation and Function of the Female Reproductive Tract in Flowering Plants

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Crawford, Brian C W ^a   Yanofsky, Martin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; FERTILIZATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; POLLEN TUBE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DEATH; FERTILIZATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN TUBE; REPRODUCTION;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 54149107474     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.010     Document Type: Review

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