Improvement of nitrate- and nitrite-dependent growth of rice by the introduction of a constitutively expressing chloroplastic nitrite transporter

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-54

  Sustiprijatno, ^a   Sugiura, Miwa ^a   Ogawa, Ken'ichi ^b   Takahashi, Masaaki ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b RIBS (Research Institute for Biological Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metabolic engineering; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrite transporter; Oryza sativa; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 33645855883     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.23.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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