A promiscuous chloroplast DNA fragment is transcribed in plant mitochondria but the encoded RNA is not edited

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 647-656

  Zeltz, Patric ^a   Kadowaki, Koh Ichi ^b   Kubo, Nakao ^b   Maier, Rainer M ^a   Hirai, Atsushi ^c   Kössel, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

motifs; organelle; polarity; RNA editing; specificity factor

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030175004     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00042236     Document Type: Article

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