Severe developmental defects, hypersensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, and lengthened telomeres in Arabidopsis MRE11 mutants

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2451-2462

  Bundock, Paul ^a   Hooykaas, Paul ^a  

^a Inst of Molecular Plant Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; REPAIR;

MUTANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036801695     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.005959     Document Type: Article

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