RNA silencing of exocyst genes in the stigma impairs the acceptance of compatible pollen in arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2526-2538

  Safavian, Darya ^a,b   Zayed, Yara ^a,c   Indriolo, Emily ^a,d   Chapman, Laura ^a   Ahmed, Abdalla ^a,e   Goring, Daphne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLOWERS; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84949571241     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00635     Document Type: Article

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