The green alga Chlamydomonas as a tool to study the nitrate assimilation pathway in plants

Model Plants and Crop Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 125-158

  Galván, Aurora ^a   Mariscal, Vicente ^a   González Ballester, David ^a   Fernández, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1201/9780849330636     Document Type: Chapter

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