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A novel male-sterile mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, faceless pollen-1, produces pollen with a smooth surface and an acetolysis-sensitive exine.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Sept 2003
Ariizumi Tohru, Hatakeyama Katsunori, Hinata Kokichi, Sato Shusei, Kato Tomohiko, Tabata Satoshi, Toriyama Kinya
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A mutant exhibiting conditional male sterility, in which fertility was restored under conditions of high humidity, was identified in T-DNA tagged lines of Arabidopsis thaliana. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) demonstrated that the pollen surface was almost smooth and the reticulate pattern not prominent. Thus, the mutant was named faceless pollen-1 (flp1). Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that...
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