In vivo analysis of plastid psbA, rbcL and rpl32 UTR elements by chloroplast transformation: Tobacco plastid gene expression is controlled by modulation of transcript levels and translation efficiency

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-345

  Eibl, Christian ^a   Zou, Zhurong ^a   Beck, Andreas ^a   Kim, Minkyun ^b   Mullet, John ^b   Koop, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLASTID; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EID: 0032837715     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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