Live-cell imaging reveals the dynamics of two sperm cells during double fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 497-502

  Hamamura, Yuki ^a   Saito, Chieko ^b   Awai, Chie ^b   Kurihara, Daisuke ^a   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^c   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^d   Kanaoka, Masahiro M ^a   Sasaki, Narie ^a   Nakano, Akihiko ^b,e   Berger, Frédéric ^f   Higashiyama, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; STAINING; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ARABIDOPSIS; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS, PLANT; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79952817560     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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