ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN6 regulates female meiosis by modulating meiotic gene expression in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1612-1628

  Qin, Yuan ^a,b   Zhao, Lihua ^a   Skaggs, Megan I ^b   Andreuzza, Sebastien ^c   Tsukamoto, Tatsuya ^b,e   Panoli, Aneesh ^c   Wallace, Kirsten N ^b   Smith, Steven ^b   Siddiqi, Imran ^c   Yang, Zhenbiao ^d   Yadegari, Ramin ^b   Palanivelu, Ravishankar ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 84901431688     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.120576     Document Type: Article

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