The mystique of irreversibility in cyanobacterial heterocyst formation: Parallels to differentiation and senescence in eukaryotic cells

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-55

  El Shehawy, Rehab M ^a,b   Kleiner, Diethelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

AUTOCATALYTIC CYCLES;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0141587881     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00096.x     Document Type: Review

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