Nitrate addition alleviates ammonium toxicity without lessening ammonium accumulation, organic acid depletion and inorganic cation depletion in arabidopsis thaliana shoots

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 577-591

  Hachiya, Takushi ^a   Watanabe, Chihiro K ^a   Fujimoto, Masaru ^a   Ishikawa, Toshiki ^b   Takahara, Kentaro ^a   Kawai Yamada, Maki ^b   Uchimiya, Hirofumi ^a,c   Uesono, Yukifumi ^a   Terashima, Ichiro ^a   Noguchi, Ko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Iwate Biotechnology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidic stress; Ammonium; Nitrate signal

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BUFFER; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CATION; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TISSUE EXTRACT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PH; PLANT; PLANT GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMASS; BUFFERS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATIONS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PLANT SHOOTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84858041166     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs012     Document Type: Article

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