Characterization of profilin polymorphism in pollen with a focus on multifunctionality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Jimenez Lopez, Jose C ^a   Morales, Sonia ^a   Castro, Antonio J ^a   Volkmann, Dieter ^b   Rodríguez García, María I ^a   de Alché, Juan D ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PROFILIN; ALLERGEN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETULA VERRUCOSA; BIRCH; CELL FUNCTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYLUS AVELLANA; CULTIVAR; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMPLASM; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIVE; PHLEUM PRATENSE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; POLLEN; PROFILIN GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAXONOMY; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; OLIVE TREE;

BETULA PENDULA; CORYLUS AVELLANA; OLEA EUROPAEA; PHLEUM PRATENSE; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLERGENS; OLEA; POLLEN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROFILINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84856824619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030878     Document Type: Article

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