Amino acid carriers of Ricinus communis expressed during seedling development: Molecular cloning and expression analysis of two putative amino acid transporters, RcAAP1 and RcAAP2

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 377-385

  Bick, Julie Ann ^a   Neelam, Anil ^a   Hall, J L ^a   Williams, Lorraine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid transport; Carrier; Expression analysis; In situ hybridisation; Ricinus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; CASTOR BEAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0032005069     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005903229458     Document Type: Article

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