Green fluorescent protein as a marker to investigate targeting of organellar RNA polymerases of higher plants in vivo

Plant Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 557-561

  Hedtke, Boris ^a   Meixner, Martin ^b   Gillandt, Sabine ^b   Richter, Ekkehard ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a   Weihe, Andreas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; CHLOROPLAST; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; ORGANELLES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033103108     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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