The two largest chloroplast genome-encoded open reading frames of higher plants are essential genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-104

  Drescher, Anja ^a,c   Stephanie, Ruf ^a   Calsa Jr , Tercilio ^b   Carrer, Helaine ^b   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; CHLOROPLAST; GENE PRODUCT; HIGHER PLANT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTANT; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENOME; SPECTINOMYCIN; TARGETED MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO; WILD RELATIVE; YCF1 GENE; YCF2 GENE;

CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASTIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO;

EID: 0342859301     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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