Severe reduction in growth rate and grain filling of rice mutants lacking OsGS1;1, a cytosolic glutamine synthetase1;1

Plant Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 641-651

  Tabuchi, Mayumi ^a   Sugiyama, Kenjiro ^a   Ishiyama, Keiki ^b   Inoue, Eri ^b   Sato, Tadashi ^a   Takahashi, Hideki ^b   Yamaya, Tomoyuki ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytosolic glutamine synthetase; Knockout mutant; Nitrogen remobilization; Retrotransposon Tos17; Rice

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS;

CYTOSOLIC GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE; GRAIN FILLING; GROWTH RATES; LEAF BLADES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; RICE;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH; PLANTS;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 20444439582     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02406.x     Document Type: Article

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