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Arabidopsis mutant of AtABCG26, an ABC transporter gene, is defective in pollen maturation.
Journal of plant physiology - 1 Nov 2011
Kuromori Takashi, Ito Takuya, Sugimoto Eriko, Shinozaki Kazuo
Abstract excerpt
In plants, pollen is the male gametophyte that is generated from microspores, which are haploid cells produced after meiosis of diploid pollen mother cells in floral anthers. In normal maturation, microspores interact with the tapetum, which consists of one layer of metabolically active cells enclosing the locule in anthers. The tapetum plays several important roles in the maturation of microspores. ATP-binding...
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