Subunit control of Rubisco biosynthesis - A relic of an endosymbiotic past?

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 59, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 105-123

  Rodermel, Steve ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Endosymbiosis; Nuclear chloroplast interactions; RbcL; RbcS; Rubisco antisense mutants

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST DNA; CYTOPLASM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0032796209     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006122619851     Document Type: Short Survey

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