The making of a chloroplast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2861-2873

  Waters, Mark T ^a   Langdale, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chloroplast biogenesis; Photomorphogenesis; Photosynthesis; Plastid nucleus signaling; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TYPE; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST DIVISION; COTYLEDON; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEAF DIMORPHISM; LIPOGENESIS; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYLAKOID;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; PLASTIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350571205     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.264     Document Type: Review

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