Involvement of ammonia in maintenance of cytosolic glutamine synthetase activity in Pisum sativum nodules

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1053-1060

  Suganuma, Norio ^a   Watanabe, Mayuko ^a   Yamada, Takayuki ^a   Izuhara, Takumi ^a   Yamamoto, Koji ^a   Nishimura, Maya ^a   Toriyama, Kanako ^a  

^a AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2); Ineffective nodules; Nitrogen fixation; Pisum sativum; Post transcription

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0032701820     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029487     Document Type: Article

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