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Collapsed abnormal pollen1 gene encoding the Arabinokinase-like protein is involved in pollen development in rice.
Plant physiology - 1 Jun 2013
Ueda Kenji, Yoshimura Fumiaki, Miyao Akio, Hirochika Hirohiko, Nonomura Ken-Ichi, Wabiko Hiroetsu
Abstract excerpt
We isolated a pollen-defective mutant, collapsed abnormal pollen1 (cap1), from Tos17 insertional mutant lines of rice (Oryza sativa). The cap1 heterozygous plant produced equal numbers of normal and collapsed abnormal grains. The abnormal pollen grains lacked almost all cytoplasmic materials, nuclei, and intine cell walls and did not germinate. Genetic analysis of crosses revealed that the cap1 mutation did not...
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