What we have learned from transcript profile analyses of male and female gametes in flowering plants

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 927-933

  Xin, HaiPing ^a   Sun, MengXiang ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA library; egg cell; fertilization; gametogenesis; sperm cell; transcript profile

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; OVULE; POLLEN; REVIEW;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OVULE; POLLEN; RNA, MESSENGER;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 77956459610     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-010-4033-1     Document Type: Review

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