Post-transcriptional defects in tobacco chloroplast mutants lacking the cytochrome b6/f complex

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-72

  Monde, Rita Ann ^a,e   Zito, Francesca ^c   Olive, Jacqueline ^d   Wollman, Francis André ^c   Stern, David B ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^d INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; CYTOCHROME B6; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FLUORESCENCE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WILD RELATIVE;

CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO;

EID: 0034001757     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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