High-intensity-light-dependent and transient expression of new genes encoding distant relatives of light-harvesting chlorophyll-a/b proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1221-1232

  Teramoto, Haruhiko ^a   Itoh, Tomoko ^a   Ono, Taka Aki ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Early light inducible protein; High light inducible protein; Lhc supergene family; Light harvesting chlorophyll a b protein

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 7944232763     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch157     Document Type: Article

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