Unresolved issues in pre-meiotic anther development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Kelliher, Timothy ^a   Egger, Rachel L ^b   Zhang, Han ^b   Walbot, Virginia ^b  

^a SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell fate specification; Maize; Meiosis; Phased small RNA; Rice; Tapetum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979747782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00347     Document Type: Article

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