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SUBMITTER: Tanaka A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC22897 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tanaka A A Ito H H Tanaka R R Tanaka N K NK Yoshida K K Okada K K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19981001 21
Chlorophyll b is an ubiquitous accessory pigment in land plants, green algae, and prochlorophytes. Its biosynthesis plays a key role in the adaptation to various light environments. We isolated six chlorophyll b-less mutants by insertional mutagenesis by using the nitrate reductase or argininosuccinate lyase genes as tags and examined the rearrangement of mutant genomes. We found that an overlapping region of a nuclear genome was deleted in all mutants and that this encodes a protein whose seque ...[more]