Cloning and functional characterization of an Arabidopsis nitrate transporter gene that encodes a constitutive component of low-affinity uptake

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1381-1392

  Huang, Nien Chen ^a   Liu, Kun Hsiang ^a,b   Lo, Hau Jan ^a   Tsay, Yi Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITRATE; NITRATE UPTAKE TRANSPORTER; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033177984     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.8.1381     Document Type: Article

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