Little or no repair of cyclobutyl pyrimidine dimers is observed in the organellar genomes of the young arabidopsis seedling

Plant Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-25

  Chen, Ju Jiun ^a   Jiang, Cai Zhong ^a   Britt, Anne Bagg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 7044272795     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.1.19     Document Type: Article

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