Disruption of chloroplast biogenesis and plant development upon down-regulation of a chloroplast processing enzyme involved in the import pathway

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 459-468

  Wan, Jiangxin ^a   Bringloe, David ^a   Lamppa, Gayle K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE GENE; BINDING PROTEIN; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOGENESIS; CARBON FLUX; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME; PROTEINASE; THYLAKOID; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0031683017     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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