Novel insights in the control of tetrapyrrole metabolism of higher plants

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-250

  Grimm, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PYRROLES; TETRAPYRROLES;

EID: 0032082554     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(98)80112-X     Document Type: Article

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