Molecular cloning and characterisation of cytoplasmic glutamine synthetase gene BcGS1 from non-heading Chinese cabbage

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 891-897

  Sun, Feifei ^a   Yang, Xuedong ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Hou, Xilin ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis makino; Cloning; Cytoplasmic glutamine synthetase; Expression; Subcellular localisation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOENZYME; NITROGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSOL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ONION; OSMOLARITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ONIONS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. PEKINENSIS;

EID: 77649281631     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3900     Document Type: Article

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