Ammonium and urea transporter inventory of the Selaginella and Physcomitrella genomes

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  De Michele, Roberto ^a,b   Loqué, Dominique ^c   Lalonde, Sylvie ^a   Frommer, Wolf B ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Physcomitrella; Selaginella; Transporter; Uptake; Urea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900823692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00062     Document Type: Article

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