Migration of sperm cells during pollen tube elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Behavior during transport, maturation and upon dissociation of male germ unit associations

Planta

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 325-332

  Ge, Lili ^a,b,e   Gou, Xiaoping ^a,c   Yuan, Tong ^a   Strout, Greg W ^a   Nakashima, Jin ^d   Blancaflor, Elison B ^d   Tian, Hui Qiao ^b   Russell, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell transport; GFP labeled sperm cells; Male germ unit; Sperm cell movement; Spinning disk confocal

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA;

EID: 79251503628     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1305-8     Document Type: Article

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