Amino acids as a nitrogen source for tomato seedlings: The use of dual-labeled (13C, 15N) glycine to test for direct uptake by tomato seedlings

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 357-361

  Ge, Tida ^a,b   Song, Shiwei ^a   Roberts, P ^c   Jones, D L ^c   Huang, Danfeng ^a   Iwasaki, K ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1, 2 13C215N glycine; 15N acquisition; Amino acid uptake; Plant microbial competition; Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; ORGANIC NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEEDLING; TESTING METHOD; VEGETABLE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 67349175278     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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