High-fluence blue light stimulates transcription from a higher plant chloroplast psbA promoter expressed in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (sp. strain PCC7942)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 448-452

  Tsinoremas, Nicholas F ^b,c   Kawakami, Alana ^a   Christopher, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Progenitor Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Blue light; Chloroplast; Promoter; Synechococcus; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BLUE LIGHT; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYTOCHROME;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

EID: 0033119213     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029562     Document Type: Article

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