Tobacco plants can use nitrogen taken up before mechanical wounding to synthesize nicotine afterwards

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-90

  Xi, Angyin ^a,b   Li, Chunjian ^a   Zhang, Fusuo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

15N isotope nitrogen; Mechanical wounding; Nicotine concentration; Nicotine synthesis; Nitrogen deficiency; Removal of the shoot apex; Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.)

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 42249095998     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.2.5121     Document Type: Article

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