The organization of high-affinity ammonium uptake in Arabidopsis roots depends on the spatial arrangement and biochemical properties of AMT1-type transporters

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2636-2652

  Yuan, Lixing ^a   Loqué, Dominique ^a   Kojima, Soichi ^a   Rauch, Sabine ^a   Ishiyama, Keiki ^b   Inoue, Eri ^b   Takahashi, Hideki ^b   Von Wiréna, Nicolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOACTIVITY; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GENE EXPRESSION; SUBSTRATES; YEAST;

AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS ROOTS; BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 35348820646     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.052134     Document Type: Article

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