Cadmium exposure and sulfate limitation reveal differences in the transcriptional control of three sulfate transporter (Sultr1;2) genes in Brassica juncea

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lancilli, Clarissa ^a   Giacomini, Barbara ^a   Lucchini, Giorgio ^a   Davidian, Jean Claude ^b   Cocucci, Maurizio ^a   Sacchi, Gian A ^a   Nocito, Fabio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Brassica juncea; Cadmium; High affinity sulfate transporters; Sulfate limitation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SULFATE; SULFUR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMASS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSTARD; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSTARD PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SULFATES; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901986600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-132     Document Type: Article

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