Mutations in the Arabidopsis VAR2 locus cause leaf variegation due to the loss of a chloroplast FtsH protease

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 303-313

  Chen, Meng ^a,c   Choi, YangDo ^a,b   Voytas, Daniel F ^a   Rodermel, Steve ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLELE; BINDING SITE; CHLOROPLAST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; THYLAKOID; VAR2 GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034047936     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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