Molecular characterization of the Lotus japonicus NRT1(PTR) and NRT2 families

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1567-1581

  Criscuolo, Giuseppina ^a   Valkov, Vladimir Totev ^a   Parlati, Aurora ^a   Alves, Ludovico Martin ^a   Chiurazzi, Maurizio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auxin; Cytokinin; Nitrate; Nitrogen fixation; Nodule organogenesis; Signalling; Symbiosis; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; CYTOKININ; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE TRANSPORTERS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEGUME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LOTUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NODULATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; TIME;

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CYTOKININS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; LOTUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 84864858851     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2012.02510.x     Document Type: Article

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