Over-expression of bacterial γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase (GSH1) in plastids affects photosynthesis, growth and sulphur metabolism in poplar (Populus tremula × Populus alba) dependent on the resulting γ-glutamylcysteine and glutathione levels

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1138-1151

  Herschbach, Cornelia ^a   Rizzini, Luca ^a   Mult, Susanne ^a   Hartmann, Tanja ^a   BUSCH, Florian ^b,c   Peuke, Andreas D ^a,d   Kopriva, Stanislav ^a,e   Ensminger, Ingo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ADP International Plant Science Consulting   (Germany)

^e JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

APS reductase; ATP sulphurylase; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Glutathione; Long distance transport; Maximum quantum yield; Phloem; Photosystem II; Sulphate assimilation; Transgenic poplar

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; PHOTOSYSTEM II;

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASTID; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLASTID; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; POPULUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIPEPTIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; POPULUS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 77954718418     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02135.x     Document Type: Article

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