Tobacco mutants with a decreased number of functional nia genes compensate by modifying the diurnal regulation of transcription, post-translational modification and turnover of nitrate reductase

Planta

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 304-319

  Scheible, Wolf Rüdiger ^a   González Fontes, Agustín ^a,e   Morcuende, Rosa ^a   Lauerer, Marianne ^b   Geiger, Michael ^a   Glaab, Johanna ^c   Gojon, Alain ^d   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b   Stitt, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compensation (gene loss); Diurnal regulation; Nicotiana (nitrate reductase); Nitrate reductase; Transgenic plant (tobacco)

Indexed keywords

NIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 1842369047     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050196     Document Type: Article

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