The Arabidopsis photomorphogenic mutant HY1 is deficient in phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis as a result of a mutation in a plastid heme oxygenase

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-347

  Muramoto, Takuya ^a   Kohchi, Takayuki ^a,b   Yokota, Akiho ^a   Hwang, Inhwan ^b,c   Goodman, Howard M ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOPHORE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEME OXYGENASE; MUTATION; PHYTOCHROME; PLASTID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033101492     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.3.335     Document Type: Article

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