LeProT1, a transporter for proline, glycine betaine, and γ-amino butyric acid in tomato pollen

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-391

  Schwacke, Rainer ^a   Grallath, Silke ^a   Breitkreuz, Kevin E ^a,b   Stransky, Elke ^a   Stransky, Harald ^a   Frommer, Wolf B ^a   Rentsch, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BETAINE; POLLEN; PROLINE; PROTEIN METABOLISM;

EID: 0033101839     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.3.377     Document Type: Article

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