Isolation of a cDNA for a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from a monocot CAM-plant, Aloe arborescens: Structure and its gene expression

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 881-888

  Honda, Hideo ^a   Okamoto, Tomoko ^a   Shimada, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a MITSUI CHEMICALS INC   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aloe (Aloe arborescens); CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism) photosynthesis; Evolutional tree; Gene expression; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase

Indexed keywords

ALOE; ALOE ARBORESCENS;

EID: 0030250193     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029028     Document Type: Article

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