Functional analysis of an Arabidopsis T-DNA "Knockout" of the high-affinity NH4+ transporter AtAMT1;1

Plant Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1263-1275

  Kaiser, Brent N ^a   Rawat, Suman R ^a   Siddiqi, M Yaeesh ^a   Masle, Josette ^a   Glass, Anthony D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DNA; GENES; RNA; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

MUTANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036853025     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.010843     Document Type: Article

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