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Regulation of Sulfur Metabolism in Plants:First Molecular Approaches

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Progress in Botany

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik ((BOTANY,volume 58))

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Sulfate assimilation is a fundamental biological process in which sulfate is reduced to the thiol level and incorporated into a C skeleton, thus forming cysteine in photosynthetic and prokaryotic organisms (Schmidt and Jager 1992; Kredich 1996), or homocysteine in fungi (Cherest and Surdin-Kerjan 1992; Cherest et al. 1993; Thomas et al. 1992; Brzywczy and Paszewski 1993, 1994; Fig. 1).

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Brunold, C., Rennenberg, H. (1997). Regulation of Sulfur Metabolism in Plants:First Molecular Approaches. In: Behnke, HD., Lüttge, U., Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik, vol 58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60458-4_7

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