Cryptochromes

Light and Plant Development

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-48

  Batschauer, Alfred ^a   Banerjee, Roopa ^a   Pokorny, Richard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Chromophores; Cryptochromes; Phosphorylation; Photolyase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948141724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988893.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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