Altered growth of transgenic tobacco lacking leaf cytosolic pyruvate kinase

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-51

  Knowles, Vicki L ^a   McHugh, Sylvia G ^c,d   Hu, Zhiyuan ^a,e   Dennis, David T ^a   Miki, Brian L ^c   Plaxton, William C ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d Iogen Corporation   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSOL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PYRUVATE KINASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031756262     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.1.45     Document Type: Article

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