AMR1, an arabidopsis gene that coordinately and negatively regulates the Mannose/L-galactose ascorbic acid biosynthetic pathway

Plant Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 942-950

  Zhang, Wenyan ^a,b   Lorence, Argelia ^a,b   Gruszewski, Hope A ^a,b   Chevone, Boris I ^a,b   Nessler, Craig L ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 66649118572     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.138453     Document Type: Article

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