Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of Chlamydomonas supports phylogenomic functional prediction of photosynthetic genes and analysis of classical acetate-requiring mutants

Plant Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 337-351

  Dent, Rachel M ^a,b,c   Sharifi, Marina N ^a,d   Malnoë, Alizée ^a,b   Haglund, Cat ^a,e   Calderon, Robert H ^a   Wakao, Setsuko ^a   Niyogi, Krishna K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e Achaogen   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; genomics; GreenCut; insertion mutant; oxidative stress; PDH2; photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENOMICS; GREENCUT; INSERTION MUTANTS; PDH2;

GENES;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ACETATES; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84926480671     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12806     Document Type: Article

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