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TETRASPORE encodes a kinesin required for male meiotic cytokinesis in Arabidopsis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2003
Yang C-Y, Spielman M, Coles J P, Li Y, Ghelani S, Bourdon V, Brown R C, Lemmon B E, Scott R J, Dickinson H G
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A key step in pollen formation is the segregation of the products of male meiosis into a tetrad of microspores, each of which develops into a pollen grain. Separation of microspores does not occur in tetraspore (tes) mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana, owing to the failure of male meiotic cytokinesi...
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