Knockdown of a rice stelar nitrate transporter alters long-distance translocation but not root influx

Plant Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2052-2063

  Tang, Zhong ^a   Fan, Xiaorong ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Feng, Huimin ^a   Miller, Anthony J ^b   Shen, Qirong ^a   Xu, Guohua ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84870818729     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.204461     Document Type: Article

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