A role for cytosolic glutamine synthetase in the remobilization of leaf nitrogen during water stress in tomato

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-248

  Bauer, Diana ^b   Biehler, Klaus ^b   Fock, Heinrich ^b   Carrayol, Elisa ^c   Hirel, Bertrand ^c   Migge, Andrea ^a   Becker, Thomas W ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Gene expression; glutamine synthetase; Lycopersicon esculentum; tomato; water stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031052650     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.990205.x     Document Type: Article

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