Light regulation of Fed-1 mRNA requires an element in the 5' untranslated region and correlates with differential polyribosome association

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 475-484

  Dickey, Lynn F ^a   Petracek, Marie E ^a   Nguyen, Tuyen T ^a   Hansen, Eric R ^a   Thompson, William F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0032029337     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.3.475     Document Type: Article

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