Cyanobacterial flavodoxin complements ferredoxin deficiency in knocked-down transgenic tobacco plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 922-935

  Blanco, Nicolás E ^a   Ceccoli, Romina D ^a   Segretin, María E ^b   Poli, Hugo O ^a   Voss, Ingo ^c   Melzer, Michael ^d   Bravo Almonacid, Fernando F ^b   Scheibe, Renate ^c   Hajirezaei, Mohammad Reza ^d   Carrillo, Néstor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

complementation; ferredoxin; flavodoxin; knock down; photosynthesis; transplastomic

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTATION; FERREDOXIN; FLAVODOXIN; KNOCK-DOWN; TRANSPLASTOMIC;

CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA; TOBACCO;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FERREDOXIN; FLAVODOXIN; PLANT DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANABAENA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; FERREDOXINS; FLAVODOXIN; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOBACCO;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79952999929     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04479.x     Document Type: Article

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