Arabidopsis carotenoid mutants demonstrate that lutein is not essential for photosynthesis in higher plants

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1627-1639

  Pogson, Barry ^a,b   McDonald, Kelly A ^a   Truong, Maria ^a   Britton, George ^c   DellaPenna, Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0030249497     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.9.1627     Document Type: Article

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