Characterization of the activity of a plastid-targeted green fluorescent protein in Arabidopsis

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 233-240

  Tirlapur, Uday K ^a   Dahse, Ingo ^a   Reiss, Bernd ^b   Meurer, Jörg ^a   Oelmüller, Ralf ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Green fluorescent protein; Pale cress mutant; Plastid targeting signal

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TYPE; CHLOROPLAST; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0032936513     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0171-9335(99)80056-9     Document Type: Article

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