Cloning and expression of a hypoxic and nitrogen inducible maize alanine aminotransferase gene

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 503-512

  Muench, Douglas G ^a   Christopher, Mary E ^b   Good, Allen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alanine aminotransferase; Anaerobic stress; Hypoxic stress; Maize; Nitrogen; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; HORDEUM VULGARE; PANICUM MILIACEUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031783536     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030409.x     Document Type: Article

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