Drought stress provokes the down-regulation of methionine and ethylene biosynthesis pathways in Medicago truncatula roots and nodules

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2051-2063

  Larrainzar, Estíbaliz ^a   Molenaar, Johanna A ^b   Wienkoop, Stefanie ^c   Gil Quintana, Erena ^a   Alibert, Bénédicte ^d   Limami, Anis M ^d,e   Arrese Igor, Cesar ^a   González, Esther M ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^e Universite d'Angers   (France)

Author keywords

Proteome; Sulfur metabolism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLIC ACID OXIDASE; ANTIOXIDANT; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFATE; SULFUR; WATER;

BARREL MEDIC; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; DROUGHT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DOWN-REGULATION; DROUGHTS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTATHIONE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SULFATES; SULFUR; WATER;

EID: 84905044798     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12285     Document Type: Article

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