Physiological responses of wild type and putrescine-overproducing transgenic cells of poplar to variations in the form and concentration of nitrogen in the medium

Tree Physiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 551-560

  Minocha, Rakesh ^a   Jae, Soon Lee ^b   Long, Stephanie ^a   Bhatnagar, Pratiksha ^c   Minocha, Subhash C ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Cell viability; Mitochondrial activity; Nitrate; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Spermidine; Spermine

Indexed keywords

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

POPULUS; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; POPULUS NIGRA;

EID: 1642547496     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/24.5.551     Document Type: Article

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