Molecular cloning of higher plant homologues of the high-affinity nitrate transporters of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Aspergillus nidulans

Gene

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 223-231

  Trueman, Laurence J ^a   Richardson, Anna ^a   Forde, Brian G ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley; crnA; Major facilitator superfamily; Multigene family; narK; Nitrate induction; Roots

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; POLYADENYLATED RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BARLEY; BINDING AFFINITY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA LIBRARY; GENE ISOLATION; HIGHER PLANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALGAE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EMBRYOPHYTA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0030579205     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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