Molecular cloning of the family of glutamine synthetase genes from maize: Expression of genes for glutamine synthetase and ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic tissues

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 49-58

  Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^a   Kawabata, Shiro ^a   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^a   Hase, Toshiharu ^a   Sugiyama, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDNA cloning; Gene expression; Glutamate synthase; Glutamine synthetase; Maize

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001862072     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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