Nitrate-independent expression of plant nitrate reductase in Lotus japonicus root nodules

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 388, 2003, Pages 1685-1690

  Kato, Kazuhisa ^a   Okamura, Yoshimichi ^a   Kanahama, Koki ^a   Kanayama, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lotus japonicus; Nitrate; Nitrate reductase; Nitrogen fixation; Root nodule

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; GENES; NITRATES; RNA;

ROOT NODULES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOTUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS;

EID: 0037560040     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg189     Document Type: Article

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