Photosynthetic evolution in parasitic plants: Insight from the chloroplast genome

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-247

  Bungard, Ralph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANGIOSPERM; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; CHLORORESPIRATORY GENE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GYMNOSPERM; NATURAL SELECTION; NDH GENE; PARASITISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RBCL GENE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

CHLOROPLASTS; EVOLUTION; GENOME, PLANT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; RNA EDITING;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 1542314443     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10405     Document Type: Review

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