Molecular evolution of plant AAP and LHT amino acid transporters

Nitrogen is an essential mineral nutrient and it is often transported within living organisms in its reduced form, as amino acids. Transport of amino acids across cellular membranes requires proteins, and here we report the phylogenetic analysis across taxa of two amino acid transporter families, th...

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Main Authors: Mechthild eTegeder, John M. Ward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2012.00021/full