Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase plays a crucial role in limiting nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus nodules

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 613-621

  Nomura, Mika ^a   Mai, Ha Thu ^a   Fujii, Miho ^a   Hata, Shingo ^b   Izui, Katsura ^b   Tajima, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon; Lotus japonicus; Nitrogen; Nodule; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; SERINE GLYOXYLATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; SERINE-GLYOXYLATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; LOTUS; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

ACETYLENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LOTUS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, PLANT; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSAMINASES;

CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS;

EID: 33745595881     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj028     Document Type: Article

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