Balancing of sulfur storage in maize seed

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wu, Yongrui ^a   Wang, Wenqin ^a   Messing, Joachim ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Methionine; Nutrition and maize; RNAi; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

LYSINE; METHIONINE; SULFUR; ZEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; RNA INTERFERENCE;

LYSINE; METHIONINE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEEDS; SULFUR; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

EID: 84861536457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-77     Document Type: Article

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