AMT1;1 transgenic rice plants with enhanced NH4+ permeability show superior growth and higher yield under optimal and suboptimal NH4+ conditions

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 965-979

  Ranathunge, Kosala ^a   El Kereamy, Ashraf ^a   Gidda, Satinder ^a   Bi, Yong Mei ^a   Rothstein, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonium transporter; assimilation; gene expression; permeability; rice; transgenic

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTERS, PLANT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASSIMILATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CEREAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ONION; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; REPORTER GENE; RICE; TRANSGENIC; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XYLEM;

AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER; ASSIMILATION; GENE EXPRESSION; PERMEABILITY; RICE; TRANSGENIC;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CEREALS; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUTAMINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; ONIONS; ORYZA SATIVA; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; XYLEM;

EID: 84903371726     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert458     Document Type: Article

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