Magnesium transporters, MGT2/MRS2-1 and MGT3/MRS2-5, are important for magnesium partitioning within Arabidopsis thaliana mesophyll vacuoles

New Phytologist

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 583-594

  Conn, Simon J ^a,c   Conn, Vanessa ^a,b   Tyerman, Stephen D ^a   Kaiser, Brent N ^a   Leigh, Roger A ^a   Gilliham, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Magnesium transport; MGT MRS2; Single cell sampling; Tonoplast

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; MAGNESIUM; MGT2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MGT3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; T DNA; T-DNA;

ABUNDANCE; CALCIUM; DICOTYLEDON; HYDROPONICS; LEAF; MAGNESIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESOPHYLL CELL; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; PLANT GENE; PROTOPLAST; TIME; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYLL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MAGNESIUM; MESOPHYLL CELLS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTOPLASTS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS; VACUOLES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79954624426     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03619.x     Document Type: Article

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