Nitrite reductase expression is regulated at the post-transcriptional level by the nitrogen source in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 625-634

  Crété, Patrice ^a   Caboche, Michel ^a   Meyer, Christian ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EID: 0031127822     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11040625.x     Document Type: Article

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