Light-harvesting complex gene expression is controlled by both transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms during photoacclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-205

  Durnford, Dion G ^a   Price, Julie A ^a   McKim, Sarah M ^a   Sarchfield, Michelle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; GENES; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYPEPTIDES; RNA;

TRANSCRIPT STABILITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037906098     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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