Arabidopsis phytochrome a is modularly structured to integrate the multiple features that are required for a highly sensitized phytochrome

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2949-2962

  Oka, Yoshito ^a,b   Ono, Yuya ^a   Toledo Ortiz, Gabriela ^a,c   Kokaji, Keio ^a   Matsui, Minami ^b   Mochizuki, Nobuyoshi ^a   Nagatania, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 84865340915     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.094201     Document Type: Article

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