Alteration of N nutrition in Myrica gale induces changes in nodule growth, nodule activity and amino acid composition

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 632-639

  Baker, Andrea ^a   Hill, Graham F ^a   Parsons, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15N2; Amino acids; bog myrtle; feedback control; Frankia; gas chromatograph mass spectrometer; Myrica gale; nitrogen fixation; nitrogen translocation; nodules; oxygen

Indexed keywords

FRANKIA; GALE; MYRICA; MYRICA GALE;

EID: 0030989791     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.990415.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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