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Transgenic tobacco plants expressing antisense ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductase transcripts display increased susceptibility to photo-oxidative damage.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2003
Palatnik Javier F, Tognetti Vanesa B, Poli Hugo O, Rodríguez Ramiro E, Blanco Nicolás, Gattuso Martha, Hajirezaei Mohammad-Reza, Sonnewald Uwe, Valle Estela M, Carrillo Néstor
Abstract excerpt
Ferredoxin-NADP(H) reductase (FNR) catalyses the final step of the photosynthetic electron transport in chloroplasts. Using an antisense RNA strategy to reduce expression of this flavoenzyme in transgenic tobacco plants, it has been demonstrated that FNR mediates a rate-limiting step of photosynthesis under both limiting and saturating light conditions. Here, we show that these FNR-deficient plants are abnormally...
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