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Protein and metabolite composition of xylem sap from field-grown soybeans (Glycine max).
Planta - 1 May 2011
Krishnan Hari B, Natarajan Savithiry S, Bennett John O, Sicher Richard C
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The xylem, in addition to transporting water, nutrients and metabolites, is also involved in long-distance signaling in response to pathogens, symbionts and environmental stresses. Xylem sap has been shown to contain a number of proteins including metabolic enzymes, stress-related proteins, signal transduction proteins and putative transcription factors. Previous studies on xylem sap have mostly utilized plants...
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