Description and applications of a rapid and sensitive non-radioactive microplate-based assay for maximum and initial activity of D-ribulose-1,5- bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1163-1175

  Sulpice, Ronan ^a   Tschoep, Hendrik ^a   Von Korff, Maria ^b   Büssis, Dirk ^a   Usadel, Björn ^a   Höhne, Melanie ^a   Witucka Wall, Hanna ^b   Altmann, Thomas ^b   Stitt, Mark ^a   Gibon, Yves ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Association mapping; Cycling assay; Enzyme activity; High throughput; Microplate; Rubisco

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOGLYCERIC ACID; 3-PHOSPHOGLYCERATE; GLYCERIC ACID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASSAY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HERB; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GLYCERIC ACIDS; KINETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34547452690     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01679.x     Document Type: Article

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