Constitutive expression of a novel-type ammonium transporter OsAMT2 in rice plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 206-211

  Suenaga, Arata ^a   Moriya, Kanami ^a   Sonoda, Yutaka ^b   Ikeda, Akira ^b   Von Wirén, Nicolaus ^c   Hayakawa, Toshihiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Junji ^b   Yamaya, Tomoyuki ^a,d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonium transporter; AMT2; Antibody; Functional expression; Rice

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037291268     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg017     Document Type: Article

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