Transgenic manipulation of plant embryo sacs tracked through cell-type-specific fluorescent markers: Cell labeling, cell ablation, and adventitious embryos

Plant Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-137

  Lawit, Shai J ^a   Chamberlin, Mark A ^a   Agee, April ^a   Caswell, Eric S ^a   Albertsen, Marc C ^a  

^a Agricultural Biotechnology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventitious embryony; Apomixis; Egg cell ablation; Embryo sac; Female gametophyte; Synergid ablation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; APOMIXIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OVULE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOMIXIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVULE; PHENOTYPE; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84878107293     PISSN: 21947953     EISSN: 21947961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00497-013-0215-x     Document Type: Article

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