Comparative transcriptomics of arabidopsis sperm cells

Plant Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1168-1181

  Borges, Filipe ^a   Gomes, Gabriela ^a,d   Gardner, Rui ^a   Moreno, Nuno ^a   McCormick, Sheila ^b   Feijó, José A ^a,c   Becker, Jörg D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LILIUM; LILIUM LONGIFLORUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PLUMBAGO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57749111824     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.125229     Document Type: Article

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