Targeted inactivation of a tobacco intron-containing open reading frame reveals a novel chloroplast-encoded photosystem I-related gene

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-102

  Ruf, Stephanie ^a   Kössel, Hans ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHLOROPLAST; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO;

CHLOROPLASTS; GENE TARGETING; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANTS, TOXIC; RIBOSOMES; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 1842301050     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.1.95     Document Type: Article

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