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sidecar pollen, an Arabidopsis thaliana male gametophytic mutant with aberrant cell divisions during pollen development.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Oct 1996
Chen Y C, McCormick S
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During pollen development each product of meiosis undergoes a stereotypical pattern of cell divisions to give rise to a three-celled gametophyte, the pollen grain. First an asymmetric mitosis generates a larger vegetative cell and a smaller generative cell, then the generative cell undergoes a second mitosis to give rise to two sperm cells. It is unknown how this pattern of cell divisions is controlled. We have...
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