Chloroplast division in higher plants requires members of two functionally divergent gene families with hemology to bacterial ftsZ

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1991-2004

  Osteryoung, Katherine W ^a   Stokes, Kevin D ^a   Rutherford, Stephen M ^a   Percival, Ann L ^a   Lee, Won Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE TECHNOLOGY; CELL DIVISION; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROKARYOSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032287069     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.12.1991     Document Type: Article

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