Organ and cellular localization of asparagine synthetase in rice plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 874-880

  Nakano, Kentaro ^a   Suzuki, Tatsuro ^a,b   Hayakawa, Toshihiko ^a   Yamaya, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asparagine synthetase (EC 6.3.5.4); Cellular localization; Nitrogen metabolism; Protein distribution; Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID; RIPENING;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0033860791     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcd006     Document Type: Article

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