Direct measurement of the transfer rate of chloroplast DNA into the nucleus

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6927, 2003, Pages 72-76

  Huang, Chun Y ^a   Ayliffe, Michael A ^b   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOBACCO;

CHLOROPLAST;

DNA;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; KANAMYCIN KINASE;

DNA; GENE TRANSFER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEEDLING; TOBACCO;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DRUG RESISTANCE; KANAMYCIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECTINOMYCIN; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0242669385     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01435     Document Type: Article

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