Tobacco plants that lack expression of functional nitrate reductase in roots show changes in growth rates and metabolite accumulation

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 52, Issue 359, 2001, Pages 1251-1258

  Hänsch, Robert ^a   Fessel, Desirée Gómez ^a   Witt, Christina ^a   Hesberg, Christine ^a   Hoffmann, Guido ^a   Walch Liu, Pia ^b   Engels, Christof ^b   Kruse, Jörg ^c   Rennenberg, Heinz ^c   Kaiser, Werner M ^d   Mendel, Ralf R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Leaf specific expression; Nitrate reductase; Roots; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLITES; NITRATES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TOBACCO;

ROOT NITRATE ASSIMILATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0034943275     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/52.359.1251     Document Type: Article

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