Increased nitrogen-use efficiency in transgenic rice plants over-expressing a nitrogen-responsive early nodulin gene identified from rice expression profiling

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1749-1760

  Bi, Yong Mei ^a   Kant, Surya ^a   Clark, Joseph ^b   Gidda, Satinder ^a   Ming, Feng ^c   Xu, Jianyao ^c   Rochon, Amanda ^a   Shelp, Barry J ^a   Hao, Lixin ^a   Zhao, Rong ^a   Mullen, Robert T ^a   Zhu, Tong ^b   Rothstein, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Nitrogen induction; Nitrogen limitation; Nitrogen reduction; Transcriptional profiling

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NODULIN; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PHYTOMASS; PROTEIN; RICE; SEED PRODUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XYLEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XYLEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; XYLEM;

EID: 70449105246     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02032.x     Document Type: Article

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