Ethylene Signaling Is Required for Synergid Degeneration and the Establishment of a Pollen Tube Block

Developmental Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 310-316

  Völz, Ronny ^a,b   Heydlauff, Juliane ^a   Ripper, Dagmar ^a   vonLyncker, Ludwig ^a   Groß Hardt, Rita ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVULE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN GERMINATION; POLLEN TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBFERTILITY; SURVIVAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; ENDOSPERM; ETHYLENES; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, REPORTER; GLYCINE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVULE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84877791502     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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