Overexpression of a soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase gene linked to organ-specific promoters in pea plants grown in different concentrations of nitrate

Planta

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-474

  Fei, Houman ^a   Chaillou, Sylvain ^b   Hirel, Bertrand ^b   Mahon, John D ^c   Vessey, J Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glutamine synthetase; Nitrate; Pisum; Transgenic pea

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENZYMES; GROWTH KINETICS; NITRATES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT ROOTS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX; LOTUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; LOTUS JAPONICUS; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

BET1L PROTEIN, HUMAN; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HDHD1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; QC SNARE PROTEIN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CYTOSOL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOMASS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEAS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; QC-SNARE PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037499943     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-002-0873-7     Document Type: Article

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