Asparagine as a major factor in the N-feedback regulation of N2 fixation in Medicago truncatula

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-31

  Sulieman, Saad ^a   Fischinger, Stephanie A ^a   Gresshoff, Peter M ^b   Schulze, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHLOEM;

ASPARAGINE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NITRATES; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHLOEM; PHOSPHORUS; ROOT NODULES, PLANT;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 77955757289     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2010.01380.x     Document Type: Article

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