Regulation of gene expression in chloroplasts of higher plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 315-326

  Sugita, Mamoru ^a   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chloroplast gene expression; cotranscription; mRNA stability; polycistronic transcript; posttranscriptional regulation; rna processing; RNA binding protein; splicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030267939     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00039388     Document Type: Article

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