Uptake of a fluorescent dye as a swift and simple indicator of organelle intactness: Import-competent chloroplasts from soil-grown Arabidopsis

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 701-704

  Schulz, Alexander ^a   Knoetzel, Jürgen ^a   Scheller, Henrik V ^a   Mant, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Carboxyfluorescein diacetate; Chloroplast; Glucosinolates; Intact organelles; Protein import

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BUFFER; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENT DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHLOROPLAST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOIL;

APUS APUS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 2442681608     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540405200514     Document Type: Article

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