Repression of nitrate uptake by replacement of Asp105 by asparagine in AtNRT3.1 in Arabidopsis thaliana L.

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1437-1441

  Kawachi, Tahei ^a   Sunaga, Yoshihito ^a   Ebato, Munehiro ^a   Hatanaka, Tetsuya ^a   Harada, Hisatomi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Forestry and Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; AtNRT3.1; Nitrate uptake; Single nucleotide mutation

Indexed keywords

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ASPARAGINE; NITRATE; NRT3.1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT ROOT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ASPARAGINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRATES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33750578713     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcl010     Document Type: Article

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