The sugar-mediated regulation of genes encoding the small subunit of Rubisco and the regulatory subunit of ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase is modified by phosphate and nitrogen

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 443-454

  Nielsen, T H ^a,b   Krapp, A ^a   Roper Schwarz U ^a   Stitt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AGP glucose pyrophosphorylase; Nitrogen; Phosphate; RbcS; Sugar (signalling); Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031871676     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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