PCR-identification of a Nicotiana plumbaginifolia cDNA homologous to the high-affinity nitrate transporters of the crnA family

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 265-274

  Quesada, Alberto ^a,b   Krapp, Anne ^a   Trueman, Laurence J ^c   Daniel Vedele, Françoise ^a   Fernández, Emilio ^b   Forde, Brian G ^c   Caboche, Michel ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Nicotiana plumbaginifolia; Nitrate transport; Nrt2 expression; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRNA PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRATE TRANSPORTERS; NITROGEN; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EMBRYOPHYTA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0031149255     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005872816881     Document Type: Article

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