A putative role for amino acid permeases in sink-source communication of barley tissues uncovered by RNA-seq

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kohl, Stefan ^a   Hollmann, Julien ^b   Blattner, Frank R ^a   Radchuk, Volodymyr ^a   Andersch, Franka ^a   Steuernagel, Burkhard ^a   Schmutzer, Thomas ^a   Scholz, Uwe ^a   Krupinska, Karin ^b   Weber, Hans ^a   Weschke, Winfriede ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley; Cysteine peptidases; Developing grains; N accumulation; N remobilisation; N transporter genes; RNA seq; Source sink communication; Vegetative organs

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; HORDEUM;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; NITROGEN; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865489719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-154     Document Type: Article

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