Isolation of cDNAs encoding two purine biosynthetic enzymes of soybean and expression of the corresponding transcripts in roots and root nodules

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 751-757

  Schnorr, Kirk M ^a,b   Laloue, Michel ^a   Hirel, Bertrand ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

GAR synthetase; GAR transformylase; Gene expression; Glycine max. L.; Nodule development; purD; purN

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHORIBOSYLAMINE GLYCINE LIGASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLAMINE-GLYCINE LIGASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLGLYCINAMIDE FORMYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOYBEAN;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROXYMETHYL AND FORMYL TRANSFERASES; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORIBOSYLGLYCINAMIDE FORMYLTRANSFERASE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOYBEANS;

EID: 0030294631     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020216     Document Type: Article

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