Nitrate sensing by the maize root apex transition zone: A merged transcriptomic and proteomic survey

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3699-3715

  Trevisan, Sara ^a   Manoli, Alessandro ^a   Ravazzolo, Laura ^a   Botton, Alessandro ^a   Pivato, Micaela ^a   Masi, Antonio ^a   Quaggiotti, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

iTRAQ; nitrate; nitric oxide; RNA Seq; root transition zone; Zea mays L

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

1,3-DIHYDROXY-4,4,5,5-TETRAMETHYL-2-(4-CARBOXYPHENYL)TETRAHYDROIMIDAZOLE; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BENZOATES; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, PLANT; IMIDAZOLES; ISOTOPE LABELING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NITRATES; PLANT ROOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84938251499     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv165     Document Type: Article

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