Highway or byway: the metabolic role of the GABA shunt in plants

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Fait, Aaron ^a   Fromm, Hillel ^b   Walter, Dirk ^a   Galili, Gad ^c   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CARBON; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 37849054223     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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