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Genes Involved in Ammonium Assimilation

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Ammonium resulting from primary nitrate reduction, dinitrogen fixation, or nitrogen remobilization has to be efficiently assimilated. In this chapter, we describe the main enzymes and genes responsible for ammonium assimilation in Lotus japonicus plants. We summarize the nomenclature and codes available in Kazusa 2.5 for the main genes involved in the ammonium assimilatory process, as well as the levels of expression found by qRT-PCR for these genes in different tissues of the plant.

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Acknowledgments

Authors acknowledge the funding by Consejería de Economía, Innovación y Ciencia from Junta de Andalucía (project P10-CVI-6368 and BIO-163). CMP acknowledges the receipt of PIF and V Plan Propio fellowships from University of Seville.

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  1. Departamento de Bioquímica Vegetal y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, Calle Profesor García González, 1, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Carmen M. Pérez-Delgado, Margarita García-Calderón, Alfredo Credali, José M. Vega, Marco Betti & Antonio J. Márquez

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  1. Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

    Satoshi Tabata

  2. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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Pérez-Delgado, C.M., García-Calderón, M., Credali, A., Vega, J.M., Betti, M., Márquez, A.J. (2014). Genes Involved in Ammonium Assimilation. In: Tabata, S., Stougaard, J. (eds) The Lotus japonicus Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44270-8_11

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