The complete structure of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) chloroplast genome: Its composition and comparative analysis

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 584-594

  Pląder, Wojciech ^a   Yukawa, Yasushi ^b   Sugiura, Masahiro ^b   Malepszy, Stefan ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene order; Organelle

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CUCUMBER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA GENE;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 38049121152     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11658-007-0029-7     Document Type: Article

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