Hydrogen photoproduction is attenuated by disruption of an isoamylase gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2151-2163

  Posewitz, Matthew C ^a   Smolinski, Sharon L ^a   Kanakagiri, Saradadevi ^b   Melis, Anastasios ^b   Seibert, Michael ^a   Ghirardi, Maria L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; HYDROGEN; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

HYDROGEN PHOTOPRODUCTION; RMA GEL BLOT ANALYSIS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CELLS; ENZYMES; GENES; HYDROGEN; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4043114949     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.021972     Document Type: Article

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