Low abundance does not mean less importance in cysteine metabolism

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1028-1030

  Gotor, Cecilia ^a   Álvarez, Consolación ^a   Bermúdez, M Ángeles ^a   Moreno, Inmaculada ^a   García, Irene ^a   Romero, Luis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cysteine; Desulfhydrase; Redox regulation; S sulfocysteine; Sulfur metabolism

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77957745590     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.8.12296     Document Type: Article

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