Regulation of the accumulation and reduction of nitrate by nitrogen and carbon metabolites in maize seedlings

Plant Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 583-589

  Sivasankar, Sobhana ^a   Rothstein, Steven ^a   Oaks, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CARBON METABOLITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUTAMINE; NITRATE; NITROGEN METABOLITE; SUCROSE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031400749     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.2.583     Document Type: Article

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