Stimulation of alanine amino transferase (AlaAT) gene expression and alanine accumulation in embryo axis of the model legume Medicago truncatula contribute to anoxia stress tolerance

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-39

  Ricoult, Claudie ^a   Cliquet, Jean Bernard ^b   Limami, Anis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH EFFECTS; SUGARS;

ALANINE; ANOXIA; ETHANOL FERMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS;

ENZYMES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 13244279784     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2005.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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