From seedling to mature plant: Arabidopsis plastidial genome copy number, RNA accumulation and transcription are differentially regulated during leaf development

Plant Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 710-722

  Zoschke, Reimo ^a   Liere, Karsten ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chloroplast transcription; Leaf development; Plastid genome copy number; Ploidy

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; METABOLISM; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPLAST TRANSCRIPTION; LEAF DEVELOPMENT;

VEGETATION;

PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PLASTID; PLOIDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; PLANT LEAVES; PLASTIDS; PLOIDIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GENES; LEAVES; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLASTIDS; PLOIDY; SEEDLINGS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34248398376     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03084.x     Document Type: Article

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