Fewer genes than organelles: Extremely low and variable gene copy numbers in mitochondria of somatic plant cells

Plant Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 948-959

  Preuten, Tobias ^a,c   Cincu, Emilia ^a   Fuchs, Jörg ^b   Zoschke, Reimo ^a   Liere, Karsten ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; endopolyploidy; mitochondrial genome; mitochondrial replication; mitochondrial transcription; Nicotiana

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ENDOPOLYPLOIDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES; MITOCHONDRIAL REPLICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION; NICOTIANA;

MITOCHONDRIA; MODEL STRUCTURES; MOLECULES; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARLEY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT LEAVES; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; COTYLEDON (GENUS); HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 78650118924     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04389.x     Document Type: Article

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