Cloning and expression of the soybean chlH gene encoding a subunit of Mg-chelatase and localization of the Mg2+ concentration-dependent chlH protein within the chloroplast

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-284

  Nakayama, Masato ^a   Masuda, Tatsuru ^a   Bando, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamagata, Hiroshi ^b   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a   Takamiya, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chlH; Chlorophyll biosynthesis; Circadian control; Light regulation; Protoporphyrin IX; Soybean (Glycine max)

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; CLONED GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0032031020     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029368     Document Type: Article

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