Nonessential plastid-encoded ribosomal proteins in tobacco: A developmental role for plastid translation and implications for reductive genome evolution

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3137-3155

  Fleischmann, Tobias T ^a   Scharff, Lars B ^a   Alkatib, Sibah ^a   Hasdorf, Sebastian ^a   Schöttler, Mark A ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROTOZOA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 80054975725     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.088906     Document Type: Article

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