A nitrogen-dependent switch in the high affinity ammonium transport in Medicago truncatula

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 485-494

  Straub, Daniel ^a   Ludewig, Uwe ^a   Neuhäuser, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Medicago truncatula; Nitrate; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; NITROGEN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BARREL MEDIC; CELL MEMBRANE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITROGEN; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84919907184     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-014-0243-4     Document Type: Article

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