Resolving the role of plant glutamate dehydrogenase: II. physiological characterization of plants overexpressing the two enzyme subunits individually or simultaneously

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1635-1647

  Tercé Laforgue, Thérèse ^a   Bedu, Magali ^a   Dargel Grafin, Céline ^a   Dubois, Frédéric ^b   Gibon, Yves ^c   Restivo, Francesco M ^d   Hirel, Bertrand ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b UFR des Sciences   (France)

^c Univ Bordeaux   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon metabolism; Glutamate; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamine; Subunits; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; STARCH; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHLOEM; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SUBUNITS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CARBON METABOLISM; GLUTAMATE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMINE; SUBUNITS; TOBACCO;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHLOEM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; STARCH; SUCROSE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84885908100     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct108     Document Type: Article

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