The expanded family of ammonium transporters in the perennial poplar plant

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-150

  Couturier, Jérémy ^a   Montanini, Barbara ^a   Martin, Francis ^a   Brun, Annick ^a   Blaudez, Damien ^a   Chalot, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Ammonium transport; Ectomycorrhiza; Expression analysis; Metabolite pools; Populus trichocarpa; Yeast complementation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM TRANSPORTERS, PLANT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMMONIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PERENNIAL PLANT;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLOWER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; YEAST;

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FLOWERS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCORRHIZAE; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POPULUS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

EID: 33847371761     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01992.x     Document Type: Article

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