Regulation of the alternative oxidase Aox1 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Role of the nitrogen source on the expression of a reporter gene under the control of the Aox1 promoter

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1418-1430

  Baurain, Denis ^a   Dinant, Monique ^a   Coosemans, Nadine ^a   Matagne, René F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENES; PIGMENTS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0037353428     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.013409     Document Type: Article

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