Three-dimensional organization of higher-plant chloroplast thylakoid membranes revealed by electron tomography

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2580-2586

  Shimoni, Eyal ^a   Rav Hon, Ophir ^a   Ohad, Itzhak ^b   Brumfeld, Vlad ^a   Reich, Ziv ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PIGMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY-TRANSDUCING FUNCTIONS; GRANUM BODY; THYLAKOID MEMBRANES;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

ANATOMY; CHLOROPHYLLS; MEMBRANES; PLASTIDS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LETTUCE; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYLAKOID; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLOROPLASTS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LETTUCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THYLAKOIDS;

EID: 33644687594     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.035030     Document Type: Article

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