Lignin modification leads to increased nodule numbers in Alfalfa

Plant Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1139-1150

  Gallego Giraldo, Lina ^a,c   Bhattarai, Kishor ^a   Pislariu, Catalina I ^a   Nakashima, Jin ^a   Jikumaru, Yusuke ^b   Kamiya, Yuji ^b   Udvardi, Michael K ^a   Monteros, Maria J ^a   Dixon, Richard A ^a,c  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FLAVONOID; LIGNIN; NITROGEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOLUBILITY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BIOMASS; CARBON; DOWN-REGULATION; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGNIN; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NITROGEN; PHENOLS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; RNA, ANTISENSE; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOLUBILITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84897589747     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.232421     Document Type: Article

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