Transcriptome and Metabolome analysis of plant sulfate starvation and resupply provides novel information on transcriptional regulation of metabolism associated with sulfur, nitrogen and phosphorus nutritional responses in Arabidopsis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Bielecka, Monika ^a,b   Watanabe, Mutsumi ^b   Morcuende, Rosa ^b,c   Scheible, Wolf Rudiger ^b,d   Hawkesford, Malcolm J ^e   Hesse, Holger ^b   Hoefgen, Rainer ^b  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^e ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metabolomics; Microarray; Nitrate; Phosphate; Sulfate starvation; Sulfur; Transcription factor; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84922215327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00805     Document Type: Article

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