Comprehensive analysis of tobacco pollen transcriptome unveils common pathways in polar cell expansion and underlying heterochronic shift during spermatogenesis

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hafidh, Said ^a   Breznenová, Katarína ^a   Růžička, Petr ^a   Feciková, Jana ^a   Čapková, Věra ^a   Honys, David ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT GAMETOGENESIS; PLANT ROOT; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GERMINATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOTS; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84856860502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-24     Document Type: Article

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