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Genetic Analysis Of Nitrate Transporter 2 Family In Brachypodium Distachyon, With An Essential Role Of Bdnrt2.1 To Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Jiang Wang
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Plant agricultural productivity relies heavily on nitrogenous fertilizers. Excess N fertilizer application can often lead to lower nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) along with energy waste and environmental problems. Therefore, understanding and improving NUE in plants are of key importance. The small monocot plant Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is rapidly emerging as a powerful model system to study questions unique to monocot crops (wheat, maize, rice, etc.).
Here, through an intensive BLAST search, six putative orthologues of the Arabidopsis NRT2 gene family were identified in the fully sequenced Brachypodium genome (Phytozome v11.0), among which I isolated a T-DNA mutant ( …