Root-to-shoot translocation of alkaloids is dominantly suppressed in nicotiana alata

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1247-1254

  Pakdeechanuan, Phattharaporn ^a   Shoji, Tsubasa ^a   Hashimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nicotiana alata; Nicotine; Root; Translocation

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; SOLANUM ALKALOID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; SELF FERTILIZATION; TOBACCO; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; XYLEM;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INBREEDING; NICOTINE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SELF-FERTILIZATION; SOLANACEOUS ALKALOIDS; TOBACCO; XYLEM;

HEXAPODA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ALATA; NICOTIANA LANGSDORFFII; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84863931817     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs065     Document Type: Article

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