News in chloroplast protein import

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 641-645

  Caliebe, Alexander ^a   Soill, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033103743     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006170321840     Document Type: Short Survey

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