The organization of nucleolar activity in plants

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 178-185

  Shaw, P J ^a   Beven, A F ^a   Wells, B ^a   Highett, M I ^a,b   Jordan, E G ^a,c  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; Gene transcription; In situ hybridization; Nucleolus; Plants; rDNA; Transcript processing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROBES; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

EXTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOLUS; PLANT; RDNA; RDNA TRANSCRIPTION; RIBOSOME ASSEMBLY; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPT PROCESSING;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NUCLEOLUS; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA;

EID: 0029873685     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1996.101381.x     Document Type: Article

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