Experimental reconstruction of functional gene transfer from the tobacco plastid geneome to the nucleus

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2869-2878

  Stegemann, Sandra ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOBACCO;

ENDOSYMBIONTS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; NUCLEAR GENES; TOBACCO PLASTID GENOME;

GENE TRANSFER;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33845302595     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.046466     Document Type: Article

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