Enhancing the aluminium tolerance of barley by expressing the citrate transporter genes SbMATE

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2381-2390

  Zhou, Gaofeng ^a,b,e   Pereira, Jorge F ^c   Delhaize, Emmanuel ^b   Zhou, Meixue ^a   Magalhaes, Jurandir V ^d   Ryan, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

^e DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid soil; cereal; citrate; Hordeum vulgare; MATE transporters; resistance; root exudates; transgenic

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CITRATE-BINDING TRANSPORT PROTEIN; FRD3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; SORGHUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

ALUMINUM; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORDEUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SORGHUM; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84901392406     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru121     Document Type: Article

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