The glutathione-deficient, cadmium-sensitive mutant, cad2-1, of Arabidopsis thaliana is deficient in γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase

Plant Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-78

  Cobbett, Christopher S ^a   May, Mike J ^b,c   Howden, Ross ^a   Rolls, Barbara ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Bayer Cropscience Belgium   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CADMIUM; CLONED GENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCING; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; PLANT METABOLISM; ROOTING;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIPEPTIDES; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032190503     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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