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The late pollen actins are essential for normal male and female development in Arabidopsis.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Dec 2006
Pawloski Lucia Cardenas, Kandasamy Muthugapatti K, Meagher Richard Brian
Abstract excerpt
In angiosperms the late pollen actins (LPAs) are strongly expressed in mature pollen and pollen tubes and at much lower levels in ovules. Four Arabidopsis lines with homozygous knockout mutations in the four individual LPA genes displayed normal flowers, pollen, and seed set. However, when all four LPAs were silenced simultaneously with a single RNA interference (RNAi) construct targeting the 3'UTR of each mRNA,...
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