Gsp1 triggers the sexual developmental program including inheritance of chloroplast DNA and mitochondrial DNA in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2401-2414

  Nishimura, Yoshiki ^a,b,c   Shikanai, Toshiharu ^a   Nakamura, Soichi ^d   Kawai Yamada, Maki ^c,e   Uchimiya, Hirofumi ^c,e,f  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f IWATE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 84864459026     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.097865     Document Type: Article

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