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Reassimilation of ammonium in Lotus japonicus.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Oct 2014
Betti Marco, García-Calderón Margarita, Pérez-Delgado Carmen M, Credali Alfredo, Pal'ove-Balang Peter, Estivill Guillermo, Repčák Miroslav, Vega José M, Galván Francisco, Márquez Antonio J
Abstract excerpt
This review summarizes the most recent results obtained in the analysis of two important metabolic pathways involved in the release of internal sources of ammonium in the model legume Lotus japonicus: photorespiratory metabolism and asparagine breakdown mediated by aparaginase (NSE). The use of photorespiratory mutants deficient in plastidic glutamine synthetase (GS2) enabled us to investigate the transcriptomics...
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