Protein prenylation in plants: Old friends and new targets

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 865-870

  Rodríguez Concepción, Manuel ^a   Yalovsky, Shaul ^a   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT; PRENYLATION; PROTEIN;

DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN ISOPRENYLATION;

EID: 0344483888     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006170020836     Document Type: Short Survey

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