Localization of tobacco cytosolic glutamine synthetase enzymes and the corresponding transcripts shows organ- and cell-specific patterns of protein synthesis and gene expression

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 803-817

  Dubois, Frédéric ^a   Brugière, Norbert ^b   Sangwan, Rajbir S ^a   Hirel, Bertrand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

flowers; glutamine synthetase; immunocytochemistry; in situ hybridization; Nicotiana tabacum L.; phloem

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0030199223     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00019468     Document Type: Article

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