AGAMOUS-LIKE13, a putative ancestor for the e functional genes, specifies male and female gametophyte morphogenesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-15

  Hsu, Wei Han ^a   Yeh, Tsung Jen ^a   Huang, Kai Yu ^a   Li, Jen Ying ^a   Chen, Hsing Yu ^a   Yang, Chang Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AGAMOUS LIKE13; fluorescence resonance energy transfer; heterotetrameric protein complex; MADS box gene; pollen morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGAMOUS-LIKE13; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MADS-BOX GENES; POLLEN MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN COMPLEXES;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

AGL13 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OVULE; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVULE; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84890965762     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12363     Document Type: Article

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