Functional analysis of plastid DNA replication origins in tobacco by targeted inactivation

Plant Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-184

  Mühlbauer, Stefan K ^a,b   Lössl, Andreas ^a   Tzekova, Lilia ^a   Zou, Zhurong ^a   Koop, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Icon Genetics AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; oriA; oriB; Plastome; Replication; Transformation

Indexed keywords

GENES; SIGNALING; TOBACCO; VECTORS;

PLASTIDS;

DNA;

CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; OENOTHERA;

EID: 0036776141     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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