Nitrogen-dependent regulation of de novo cytokinin biosynthesis in rice: The role of glutamine metabolism as an additional signal

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1881-1893

  Kamada Nobusada, Tomoe ^a   Makita, Nobue ^a   Kojima, Mikiko ^a   Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Arabidopsis thaliana; Cytokinin; Glutamine; Nitrate; Oryza sativa

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CYTOKININ; GLUTAMINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; RICE; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

AMMONIUM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CYTOKININ; GLUTAMINE; NITRATE; ORYZA SATIVA;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84887934037     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct127     Document Type: Article

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