Transcriptional and physiological changes in the S assimilation pathway due to single or combined S and Fe deprivation in durum wheat (Triticum durum L.) seedlings

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1663-1675

  Ciaffi, Mario ^a   Paolacci, Anna Rita ^a   Celletti, Silvia ^a   Catarcione, Giulio ^a   Kopriva, Stanislav ^b   Astolfi, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iron; Strategy II; sulphate assimilation; sulphate transporter; sulphur; wheat.

Indexed keywords

ADENYLYLSULFATE REDUCTASE; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PLANT RNA; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATE; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; SEEDLING; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; WHEAT;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IRON; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 84876019923     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert027     Document Type: Article

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