Hunting for plant nitric oxide synthase provides new evidence of a central role for plastids in nitric oxide metabolism

Plant Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-23

  Gas, Elisabet ^a,b   Flores Pérez, Úrsula ^a   Sauret Güeto, Susanna ^c   Rodríguez Concepción, Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 62549115324     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.065243     Document Type: Review

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