A plastid sigma factor sequence from the C4 monocot Sorghum bicolor

Plant Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 180-186

  Kroll, Daniela ^a   Streubel, Monika ^a   Westhoff, P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C4 photosynthesis; Plastid transcription; Sigma factors; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCING; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA; SINAPIS ALBA; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 0032896042     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1999.tb00241.x     Document Type: Article

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