Sulphur and nitrogen nutrition influence the response of chickpea seeds to an added, transgenic sink for organic sulphur

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 404, 2004, Pages 1889-1901

  Chiaiese, Pasquale ^a,b   Ohkama Ohtsu, Naoko ^c,e   Molvig, Lisa ^a   Godfree, Robert ^a   Dove, Hugh ^a   Hocart, Charles ^b   Fujiwara, Toru ^d   Higgins, T J V ^a   Tabe, Linda M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Metabolism; Modification; Nutritive value; Plant; Seed; Sulphur

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; COMPOSITION; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; SULFUR;

SUNFLOWER SEED ALBUMIN (SSA); TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

SEED;

CYSTEINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE; NITROGEN; O ACETYLSERINE; O-ACETYLSERINE; SERINE; SULFUR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHICKPEA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CICER; CYSTEINE; METHIONINE; NITROGEN; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; SERINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFUR;

CICER; CICER ARIETINUM; HELIANTHUS;

EID: 4344570204     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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