Isolation and characterisation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cDNA clones encoding proteins involved in magnesium chelation into protoporphyrin IX

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1053-1056

  Kruse, Elisabeth ^a   Mock, Hans Peter ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll synthesis; Chloroplast; Fe chelatase; Porphyrins; RACE

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYASE; MAGNESIUM CHELATASE; PLANT RNA; PROTOPORPHYRIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; TOBACCO;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, PLANT; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTOPORPHYRINS; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO;

EID: 0031444348     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005913315905     Document Type: Article

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