Retrograde signaling and photoprotection in a gun4 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1242-1262

  Formighieri, Cinzia ^a   Ceol, Mauro ^b   Bonente, Giulia ^a   Rochaix, Jean David ^b   Bassi, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; genome uncoupled (gun) mutants; green algae; gun4; PTOX; retrograde signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870566090     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss051     Document Type: Article

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