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Rice DUR3 mediates high-affinity urea transport and plays an effective role in improvement of urea acquisition and utilization when expressed in Arabidopsis.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2012
Wang Wei-Hong, Köhler Barbara, Cao Feng-Qiu, Liu Guo-Wei, Gong Yuan-Yong, Sheng Song, Song Qi-Chao, Cheng Xiao-Yuan, Garnett Trevor, Okamoto Mamoru, Qin Rui, Mueller-Roeber Bernd, Tester Mark, Liu Lai-Hua
Abstract excerpt
• Despite the great agricultural and ecological importance of efficient use of urea-containing nitrogen fertilizers by crops, molecular and physiological identities of urea transport in higher plants have been investigated only in Arabidopsis. • We performed short-time urea-influx assays which have identified a low-affinity and high-affinity (K(m) of 7.55 μM) transport system for urea-uptake by rice roots (Oryza...
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