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The root-specific glutamate decarboxylase (GAD1) is essential for sustaining GABA levels in Arabidopsis.
Plant molecular biology - 1 May 2004
Bouché Nicolas, Fait Aaron, Zik Moriyah, Fromm Hillel
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In plants, as in most eukaryotes, glutamate decarboxylase catalyses the synthesis of GABA. The Arabidopsis genome contains five glutamate decarboxylase genes and one of these genes (glutamate decarboxylase1; i.e. GAD1 ) is expressed specifically in roots. By isolating and analyzing three gad1 T-D...
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