Chlorophyll-deficient mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that accumulate magnesium protoporphyrin IX

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 643-658

  Meinecke, Linda ^a   Alawady, Ali ^b   Schroda, Michael ^c   Willows, Robert ^d   Kobayashi, Marilyn C ^e   Niyogi, Krishna K ^e   Grimm, Bernhard ^b   Beck, Christoph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Gene expression; Mg protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase mutants; Mgprotoporphyrin IX accumulation; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 84856067322     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-010-9604-9     Document Type: Article

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