Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Biology - Micro- and Molecular Biology, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Institut fur Botanik), language: English, abstract: In plants, chloride and nitrate transportation across the tonoplast is mediated by members of the chloride channel family (CLC). Seven Arabidopsis CLCs are identified and the function of nearly all is unravelled. In contrast, only one CLC was discovered in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) and named GmCLC1. Except that GmCLC1 is located in the tonoplast and trans-ports chloride, little is known about the protein's...