Chloroplast division machinery as revealed by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy

Planta

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-190

  Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a   Mori, Toshiyuki ^a   Takahara, Manabu ^a   Miyagishima, Shin Ya ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast (plastid) division; FtsZ ring; Pelargonium (plastid division); Plastid dividing ring

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLOROPLAST DIVISION; INVAGINATION;

PROTEINS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTIBODIES; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPLASTS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LOLIUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PELARGONIUM; PELARGONIUM ZONALE;

EID: 0036938981     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-002-0734-4     Document Type: Article

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