Synchronously developing collet hairs in Arabidopsis thaliana provide an easily accessible system for studying nuclear movement and endoreduplication

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4165-4178

  Sliwinska, Elwira ^a,b   Mathur, Jaideep ^b   Bewley, J Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cytoskeleton; DNA content; Flow cytometry; Fluorescent protein; Nucleus migration; Tip growth

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPOCOTYL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84866661284     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers099     Document Type: Article

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