The sulfate transporter family in wheat: Tissue-specific gene expression in relation to nutrition

Molecular Plant

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 374-389

  Buchner, Peter ^a   Parmar, Saroj ^a   Kriegel, Anne ^a,b   Carpentier, Magali ^a   Hawkesford, Malcolm J ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grain filling; Sulfate transporter; Sulfur nutrition; Transcriptional regulation; Wheat

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77950247181     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp119     Document Type: Article

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