Cellular expression and regulation of the Medicago truncatula cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes in root nodules

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 741-756

  Carvalho, Helena ^a   Lescure, Nicole ^b   De Billy, Françoise ^b   Chabaud, Mireille ^b   Lima, Ligia ^a   Salema, Roberto ^a   Cullimore, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Lab Biol Molec Rel Plantes M   (France)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Glutamine synthetase; Legume Rhizobium symbiosis; Nitrogen assimilation; Root nodules

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; MTGSA GENE; MTGSB GENE; NODULATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034056054     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006304003770     Document Type: Article

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