Seeing blue: The discovery of cryptochrome

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 851-861

  Ahmad, Margaret ^a   Cashmore, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; CRYPTOCHROME PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; FLAVOPROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOTORECEPTOR; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 0030097470     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020798     Document Type: Article

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