Genetic enhancement of the ability to tolerate photoinhibition by introduction of unsaturated bonds into membrane glycerolipids

Plant Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 551-559

  Gombos, Zoltan ^a,b   Kanervo, Eira ^c   Tsvetkova, Nelly ^a,d   Sakamoto, Toshio ^a   Aro, Eva Mari ^c   Murata, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLYCOLIPID; LIGHT; MEMBRANE; MICROORGANISM; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC MACHINERY; PHOTOSYSTEM II; STRESS TOLERANCE; UNSATURATED LIPID;

SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031403991     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.115.2.551     Document Type: Article

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