Targeted gene knockouts reveal overlapping functions of the five physcomitrella patens ftsz isoforms in chloroplast division, chloroplast shaping, cell patterning, plant development, and gravity sensing

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1359-1372

  Martin, Anja ^a   Lang, Daniel ^a   Hanke, Sebastian T ^a   Mueller, Stefanie J X ^a   Sarnighausen, Eric ^a   Vervliet Scheebaum, Marco ^a   Reski, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Cell wall; Chloroplast; Gravitropism; GTPase; Moss; P. patens; Plastoskeleton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PROKARYOTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRYOPSIDA; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRYOPSIDA; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 71249139011     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp076     Document Type: Article

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