Pine embryogenesis: Many licences to kill for a new life

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 928-932

  Vuosku, Jaana ^a,b   Sutela, Suvi ^a   Tillman Sutela, Eila ^b   Kauppi, Anneli ^a   Jokela, Anne ^a   Sarjala, Tytti ^b   Häggman, Hely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conifer; Developmental cell death; Embryogenesis; Megagametophyte; Necrotic cell death; Pine; Seed development

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CYTOLOGY; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

APOPTOSIS; GERMINATION; PINUS; SEEDS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 70450170297     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.10.9535     Document Type: Review

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