Engineering calcium oxalate crystal formation in arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1275-1282

  Nakata, Paul A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Calcium; Crystals; Genes obcA and obcB; Oxalate

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM OXALATE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BURKHOLDERIA; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BURKHOLDERIA; CALCIUM; CALCIUM OXALATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLANT CELLS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE;

EID: 84863909118     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs071     Document Type: Article

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