Urea Transport by Nitrogen-Regulated Tonoplast Intrinsic Proteins in Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1220-1228

  Liu, Lai Hua ^a,c   Ludewig, Uwe ^b   Gassert, Brigitte ^a   Frommer, Wolf B ^b,d   Von Wirén, Nicolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; NITROGEN; PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; YEAST;

UREA TRANSPORTER GENES;

UREA;

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0345392686     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.027409     Document Type: Article

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