Isolation and characterization of a mutant protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii conferring resistance to porphyric herbicides

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 839-859

  Randolph Anderson, Barbara L ^a   Sato, Ryo ^a,b   Johnson, Anita M ^a   Harris, Elizabeth H ^a   Hauser, Charles R ^a   Oeda, Kenji ^b   Ishige, Fumiharu ^b   Nishio, Shoichi ^b   Gillham, Nicholas W ^a   Boynton, John E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Complementation; Herbicide resistance; Indexed cosmid library; Nuclear transformation; Protoporphyrinogen oxidase

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CLONE; COSMID; EXON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; MUTANT; PROTOPORPHYRIN; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXONS; GENES; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 6544265023     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006085026294     Document Type: Article

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