Coordination of plastid and nuclear gene expression

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1429, 2003, Pages 135-145

  Gray, John C ^a   Sullivan, James A ^a,b   Wang, Jun Hui ^a,c   Jerome, Cheryl A ^a,d   MacLean, Daniel ^a   Allen, J F ^e   Horner, D S ^f   Howe, C J ^a   Lopez Juez, E ^g   Herrmann, R G ^h   Leaver, C J ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chloroplast biogenesis; gun mutants; Lincomycin; Norflurazon; Plastid signal; Redox signal

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; PLASTID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037471675     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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