A Conversation across Generations: Soma-Germ Cell Crosstalk in Plants

Developmental Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 215-

  Feng, Xiaoqi ^a   Zilberman, Daniel ^a   Dickinson, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Plant Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M5;

ANGIOSPERM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TYPE; EPIGENETICS; GAMETE; GAMETOPHYTE; HELPER CELL; MICROSPORE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMA GERM CELL; STAMEN;

EID: 84873608085     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.01.014     Document Type: Review

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