Response of ammonia assimilation in cucumber seedlings to nitrate stress

Journal of Plant Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 173-179

  Yang, Xiaoyu ^a,c   Wang, Xiufeng ^a,b   Wei, Min ^a,b   Hikosaka, Shoko ^c   Goto, Eiji ^c  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology   (China)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Cucumber; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamate synthase; Glutamine synthetase; Nitrate stress

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 77953543058     PISSN: 12269239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12374-010-9096-9     Document Type: Article

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