Evaluation of the presence of arabinogalactan proteins and pectins during Quercus suber male gametogenesis

Annals of Botany

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-92

  Costa, Mario Luís ^a,b   Sobral, Romulo ^b   Costa, Maria Manuela Ribeiro ^b   Amorim, Maria Isabel ^a,b   Coimbra, Sílvia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AGP; Arabidopsis thaliana; Arabinogalactan proteins; Cork oak; Male gametophyte; Microsporocyte cells walls; Pectins; Pollen development; Quercus suber

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DATABASE; DICOTYLEDON; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MONOSACCHARIDE; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FAGACEAE; QUERCUS SUBER;

ARABINOGALACTAN PROTEINS; EPITOPE; MUCOPROTEIN; PECTIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OAK; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; FLOWERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCOPROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PECTINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; QUERCUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84927562834     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu223     Document Type: Article

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