Machinery of RNA Editing in Plant Organelles

RNA and DNA Editing: Molecular Mechanisms and Their Integration into Biological Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 99-119

  Shikanai, Toshiharu ^a   Obokata, Jun Ichi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana mutants; Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein; Uridine (U) insertion deletion type RNA editing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889268584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470262269.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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