Aspartate aminotransferase in alfalfa nodules: Localization of mRNA during effective and ineffective nodule development and promoter analysis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-274

  Yoshioka, Hirofumi ^a,b   Gregerson, Robert G ^c   Samac, Deborah A ^a,d   Hoevens, Kim C M ^e   Trepp, Gian ^a,f   Gantt, J Stephen ^a   Vance, Carroll P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e Division Laboratory Science   (Netherlands)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Malate dehydrogenase; Medicago sativa; Nitrogen fixation; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase; Sinorhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE FUSION; HISTOCHEMICAL STAINING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYME; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NODULE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0032895725     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.4.263     Document Type: Article

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