Physiological characterisation of Arabidopsis mutants affected in the expression of the putative regulatory protein PII

Planta

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-39

  Ferrario Méry, Sylvie ^a   Bouvet, Mélanie ^c   Leleu, Olivier ^a,b   Savino, Gil ^a   Hodges, Michael ^c   Meyer, Christian ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; AtGLB1 gene; Carbon metabolism; Nitrogen metabolism; Real time PCR; T DNA insertion mutant

Indexed keywords

AHB1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROGEN; PII PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYDROPONICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROPONICS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 28444492347     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0063-5     Document Type: Article

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