Meanings
- not comparablebiologyNot found in or part of a chloroplast
These taxa were selected because of availability of nonchloroplast nuclear protein sequences, permitting animal-based calibration.
2001 August 10, Daniel S. Heckman et al., “Molecular Evidence for the Early Colonization of Land by Fungi and Plants”, in Science, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1129–11331 more example
The fatty acid composition of nonchloroplast lipids, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, was less affected by the absence of the chloroplast trienoic fatty acid synthetase gene (Table 1 ).
2000 January 21, Yuuki Murakami et al., “Trienoic Fatty Acids and Plant Tolerance of High Temperature”, in Science, volume 287, number 5452, →DOI, pages 476–479
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