Efficient and rapid isolation of early-stage embryos from Arabidopsis thaliana seeds

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 76, 2013, Pages

  Raissig, Michael T ^a   Gagliardini, Valeria ^a   Jaenisch, Johan ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a   Baroux, Célia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Cellular Biology; Developmental Biology; DNA methylation profiling; Embryo isolation; Embryology; FISH; Genetics; Issue 76; Molecular Biology; Plant Biology; Reporter assays; RNA amplification; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878859005     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50371     Document Type: Article

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