Deciphering the role of aspartate and prephenate aminotransferase activities in plastid nitrogen metabolism

Plant Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-104

  de la Torre, Fernando ^a   El Azaz, Jorge ^a   Ávila, Concepción ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGNIN; NITROGEN; PHENYLALANINE; PREPHENATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LEAF; PLASTID; TOBACCO;

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGNIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; PHENYLALANINE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; TOBACCO; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84891779491     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.232462     Document Type: Article

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