Identification of cis-acting RNA leader elements required for chloroplast psbD gene expression in Chlamydomonas

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 957-970

  Nickelsen, Jörg ^a,b   Fleischmann, Mark ^a   Boudreau, Eric ^a   Rahire, Michele ^a   Rochaix, Jean David ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; MESSENGER RNA; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT GENETICS;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033133576     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.5.957     Document Type: Article

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