Gene expression in the dimorphic sperm cells of Plumbago zeylanica: Transcript profiling, diversity, and relationship to cell type

Plant Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-47

  Gou, Xiaoping ^a   Yuan, Tong ^a   Wei, Xiaoping ^a   Russell, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential gene expression; Male germ lineage; Plumbago zeylanica; Preferential fertilization; Sperm cell; Sperm dimorphism

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; PLUMBAGINACEAE; POLLEN; UPREGULATION;

EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLUMBAGINACEAE; POLLEN; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UP-REGULATION;

PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA;

EID: 70349504542     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.03934.x     Document Type: Article

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