In planta transient expression as a system for genetic and biochemical analyses of chlorophyll biosynthesis

Plant Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Sawers, Ruairidh J H ^a,b   Farmer, Phyllis R ^b   Moffett, Peter ^b   Brutnell, Thomas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

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EID: 77749292855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-2-15     Document Type: Article

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