Contribution of the GABA shunt to hypoxia-induced alanine accumulation in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-102

  Miyashita, Yo ^a   Good, Allen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alanine; Amino acid metabolism; Anaerobic stress; GABA; Hypoxia; Low oxygen stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; OXYGEN; POP2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; TIME;

ALANINE; ANOXIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PLANT ROOTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSAMINASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 38349085613     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm171     Document Type: Article

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