Medicago truncatula contains a second gene encoding a plastid located glutamine synthetase exclusively expressed in developing seeds

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Seabra, Ana R ^a   Vieira, Cristina P ^a   Cullimore, Julie V ^b   Carvalho, Helena G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT SEED; PLASTID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASTIDS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77955705934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-183     Document Type: Article

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