Three functional transporters for constitutive, diurnally regulated, and starvation-induced uptake of ammonium into Arabidopsis roots

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 937-947

  Gazzarrini, Sonia ^a,c   Lejay, Laurence ^a,b   Gojon, Alain ^a,b   Ninnemann, Olaf ^a,b   Frommer, Wolf B ^a,b   Von Wirén, Nicolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER; AMMONIUM UPTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN METABOLISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033133448     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.5.937     Document Type: Article

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