Comparative analysis of plastid gene expression in tobacco chloroplasts and proplastids: Relationship between transcription and transcript accumulation

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 581-589

  Sakai, Atsushi ^a   Suzuki, Takeshi ^a,b   Miyazawa, Yutaka ^a   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a   Nagata, Toshiyuki ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Chloroplast nucleus (chloroplast nucleoid); Nicotiana tabacum; Proplastid; Proplastid nucleus (proplastid nucleoid); Transcription

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; PLASTID; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031817565     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029408     Document Type: Article

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