The meiotic transcriptome architecture of plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Dukowic Schulze, Stefanie ^a   Chen, Changbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthers; Meiocytes; Meiosis; Microarray; RNA seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979642480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00220     Document Type: Review

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