Differential expression of two hemA mRNAs encoding glutamyl-tRNA reductase proteins in greening cucumber seedlings

Plant Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1223-1230

  Tanaka, Ryouichi ^a   Yoshida, Kazuichi ^a   Nakayashiki, Toru ^a   Masuda, Tatsuru ^a,b   Tsuji, Hideo ^a,c   Inokuchi, Hachiro ^a   Tanaka, Ayumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KOBE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMYL TRNA REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; CUCUMBER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COTYLEDON; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030112935     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.4.1223     Document Type: Article

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