Microscopic analysis of Arabidopsis ovules
Balaji Enugutti1, Kay Schneitz
1Entwicklungsbiologie der Pflanzen, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 8, 2014
Abstract:
Ovules are the major female reproductive organs in higher plants. Furthermore, ovules of Arabidopsis thaliana are successfully used as model system to study plant organogenesis. Here we describe two microscopic techniques to analyze ovule development in Arabidopsis. Both methods involve fixed specimens and allow rapid, easy, and reproducible morphological comparisons between wild-type and mutant ovule development.
