Quick identification of the members of the glutamine synthetase gene family from sunflower by simultaneous amplification of cDNA with degenerate primers

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-355

  Montenegro, M ^a   Maldonado, J M ^a   Perez Vicente R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chloroplastic isoforms; Cytosolic isoforms; Helianthus annuus

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSOL; DNA AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; INBRED LINE; PRIMER DNA; PROBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 0032455751     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001825706687     Document Type: Article

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