Potential functional replacement of the plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase subunit (accD) gene by recent transfers to the nucleus in some angiosperm lineages

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1918-1929

  Rousseau Gueutin, Mathieu ^a   Huang, Xun ^b   Higginson, Emily ^a   Ayliffe, Michael ^c   Day, Anil ^b   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 84875710723     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.214528     Document Type: Article

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