Role of magnesium chelatase activity in the early steps of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway

Plant Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1161-1169

  Papenbrock, Jutta ^a,b   Mock, Hans Peter ^a   Tanaka, Ryouichi ^a   Kruse, Elisabeth ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE RNA; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FLOW; GROWTH RATE; MAGNESIUM CHELATASE; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLITE; PHENOTYPE; PROTOPORPHYRIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAPYRROLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0034003620     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.122.4.1161     Document Type: Article

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