Constancy of organellar genome copy numbers during leaf development and senescence in higher plants

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-192

  Li, Weimin ^a   Ruf, Stephanie ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Genome copy number; Leaf development; Mitochondrion; Nicotiana tabacum; Plastid

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENOME; HIGHER PLANT; LEAF DEVELOPMENT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; ORGANELLES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 32444433857     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0075-7     Document Type: Article

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