Post-transcriptional regulation of chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 327-341

  Rochaix, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; chloroplast gene expression; RNA processing; RNA stability; splicing; translation

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0030266995     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00039389     Document Type: Article

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