Organellar gene transcription and early seedling development are affected in the rpoT;2 mutant of Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-48

  Baba, Kyoko ^a   Schmidt, Julien ^a   Espinosa Ruiz, Ana ^a,e   Villarejo, Arsenio ^b   Shiina, Takashi ^c   Gardeström, Per ^b   Sane, Aniruddha P ^d   Bhalerao, Rishikesh P ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; NEP; PEP; Plastid; Transcription, organelle nucleus signaling

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA;

PLANT DEVELOPMENT; ROOT GROWTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLASTID; SEEDLING; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLASTIDS; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1842430683     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02022.x     Document Type: Article

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