DNA maintenance in plastids and mitochondria of plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Oldenburg, Delene J ^a   Bendich, Arnold J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast DNA; DNA recombination; DNA repair; DNA replication; Organellar DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947427080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00883     Document Type: Review

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