Complexity and expression of the glutamine synthetase multigene family in the amphidiploid crop Brassica napus

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 395-405

  Ochs, Günther ^a   Schock, Gerald ^a   Trischler, Martin ^a   Kosemund, Kirstin ^a   Wild, Aloysius ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphidiploid genome structure; Gene expression; Glutamine synthetase; Multigene family; Nitrogen assimilation; Oilseed rape

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; GENE LOCUS; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRASSICA; CYTOSOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYPLOIDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033083976     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006193717093     Document Type: Article

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