Effect of hydro- and osmopriming of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seeds on enzymes of sucrose and nitrogen metabolism in nodules

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 177-182

  Kaur, Satvir ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a   Kaur, Narinder ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cicer arietinum; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamate synthase; Glutamine synthetase; Invertase; Priming; Sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CICER ARIETINUM; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE; INVERTASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

SEED;

METABOLISM; NODULES; PLANTS; SEEDS; SUCROSE;

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 33846933537     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-006-9103-9     Document Type: Article

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