Protein import into chloroplasts

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 529-535

  Soll, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0036883476     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00296-0     Document Type: Review

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