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Female gametophytic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana identified in a gene trap insertional mutagenesis screen.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2011
Brukhin Vladimir B, Jaciubek Miloslawa, Bolaños Carpio Arturo, Kuzmina Vera, Grossniklaus Ueli
Abstract excerpt
In plants, the male and female gametophytes represent the haploid generation that alternates with the diploid sporophytic generation. Male and female gametophytes develop from haploid micro- and megaspores, respectively. In flowering plants (angiosperms), the spores themselves arise from the sporophyte through meiotic divisions of sporogenous cells in the reproductive organs of the flower. Male and female...
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