Roles of pollen-specific boron efflux transporter, OsBOR4, in the rice fertilization process

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2011-2019

  Tanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Uraguchi, Shimpei ^a,b   Saito, Akihiro ^a,c   Kajikawa, Masataka ^a,d   Kasai, Koji ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^e   Nagamura, Yoshiaki ^e   Fujiwara, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron; Oryza sativa; OsBOR4; Pollen tube; Transporter

Indexed keywords

BORON; TRANSPORTER; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSBOR4; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BORON; ORYZA SATIVA; OSBOR4; POLLEN TUBE; TRANSPORTER;

BORON; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN;

EID: 84890529168     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct136     Document Type: Article

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