Photosynthesis is strongly reduced by antisense suppression of chloroplastic cytochrome bf complex in transgenic tobacco

Australian Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 445-452

  Price, G Dean ^a   Von Caemmerer, Susanne ^a,c   Evans, John R ^b   Siebke, Katharina ^a   Anderson, Jan M ^c   Badger, Murray R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Chloroplastic cytochrome bf complex; Electron transport; Metabolite pools; Nicotiana (transgenic plants); Photosynthesis; Rieske; Stomata

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOGLYCERIC ACID; ANTISENSE DNA; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOCHROME B; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0031828646     PISSN: 03107841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PP97164     Document Type: Article

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