Regulation of NRT1 and NRT2 gene families of Arabidopsis thaliana: Responses to nitrate provision

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 304-317

  Okamoto, Mamoru ^a,c   Vidmar, J John ^b,c   Glass, Anthony D M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b AgriGenomics   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

13NO3 ; Arabidopsis thaliana; Gene expression; HATS LATS; Nitrate transporter; NRT

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037361852     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg036     Document Type: Article

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