Overexpression of alfalfa cytosolic glutamine synthetase in nodules and flowers of transgenic Lotus japonicus plants

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 326-336

  Suárez, Ramón ^a   Márquez, Judith ^b   Shishkova, Svetlana ^a,c   Hernández, Georgina ^a  

^a Ctro Invest Sobre Fijacion N   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; GENES; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROTEINS;

POLLEN GRAINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYOPHYTA; LOTUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; SESBANIA; SESBANIA ROSTRATA;

EID: 0038284885     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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