Arabidopsis AtNek2 Kinase is Essential and Associates with Microtubules

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-348

  Agueci, Francesco ^a   Rutten, Twan ^a   Demidov, Dmitri ^a   Houben, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell morphogenesis; Histone H3; Microtubules; NIMA kinase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860394177     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-011-0342-1     Document Type: Article

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