Arabidopsis ammonium transporters, atAMT1;1 and atAMT1;2, have different biochemical properties and functional roles

Plant and Soil

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 151-160

  Shelden, Megan C ^a   Dong, Bei ^a   De Bruxelles, Guy L ^a   Trevaskis, Ben ^a   Whelan, Jim ^b   Ryan, Peter R ^c   Howitt, Susan M ^a   Udvardi, Michael K ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium transporter; Arabidopsis thaliana; Biphasic kinetics; Electrophysiology; Methylammonium; Yeast complementation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0035003677     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010303813181     Document Type: Article

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