New dynamics in an old friend: Dynamic tubular vacuoles radiate through the cortical cytoplasm of red onion epidermal cells

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1826-1839

  Wiltshire, Elizabeth J ^a   Collings, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Actin microfilaments; Allium cepa; Anthocyanin; Onion epidermis; Vacuolar tubules; Vacuole

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYOSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; MICROFILAMENT; ONION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTHOCYANINS; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOSINS; ONIONS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; VACUOLES;

ALLIUM ATRORUBENS; ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 70349865276     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp124     Document Type: Article

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