Identification and expression analyses of cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 492-505

  Goodall, Andrew J ^a   Kumar, Pankaj ^a   Tobin, Alyson K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley; Glutamine synthetase; Hordeum vulgare; In situ hybridization; Nitrogen assimilation; qRT PCR

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CYTOSOL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORDEUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HORDEUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 84876006661     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct006     Document Type: Article

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