Uridine 5′-Monophosphate Synthase Is Transcriptionally Regulated by Pyrimidine Levels in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 815-821

  Santoso, Djoko ^a,b   Thornburg, Robert ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA;

EID: 0001217272     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.2.815     Document Type: Article

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