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Requirement for the plastidial oxidative pentose phosphate pathway for nitrate assimilation in Arabidopsis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2013
Bussell John D, Keech Olivier, Fenske Ricarda, Smith Steven M
Abstract excerpt
Sugar metabolism and the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway (OPPP) are strongly implicated in N assimilation, although the relationship between them and the roles of the plastidial and cytosolic OPPP have not been established genetically. We studied a knock-down mutant of the plastid-localized OPPP enzyme 6-phosphogluconolactonase 3 (PGL3). pgl3-1 plants exhibited relatively greater resource allocation to roots...
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