Role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in anaplerosis in the green microalga Dunaliella salina cultured under different nitrogen regimes

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 186-191

  Norici, Alessandra ^a   Dalsass, Alessia ^a   Giordano, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; PROTEINS;

ISOFORMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; DUNALIELLA; DUNALIELLA SALINA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SALINA;

EID: 0036787636     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2002.1160207.x     Document Type: Article

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