GC-MS based metabolite profiling implies three interdependent ways of ammonium assimilation in Medicago truncatula root nodules

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-83

  Barsch, Aiko ^a   Carvalho, Helena G ^b   Cullimore, Julie V ^c   Niehaus, Karsten ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

GC MS; Glutamine synthetase; Medicago truncatula; Metabolite profiling; Phosphinotricine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYME KINETICS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HERBICIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; NITROGEN; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PROTEINS;

GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METABOLITE PROFILING; PHOSPHINOTRICINE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HERBICIDES; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ROOT NODULES, PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 33846243383     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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