Cloning of a cDNA encoding a 3-dehydroquinate synthase from a higher plant, and analysis of the organ-specific and elicitor-induced expression of the corresponding gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-76

  Bischoff, Markus ^a   Rösler, Jens ^a   Raesecke, Hanns R ^a   Görlach, Jörn ^a,b   Amrhein, Nikolaus ^a   Schmid, Jürg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3 dehydroquinate synthase; elicitor inducibility; organ specific expression; shikimate pathway; tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0030130404     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020607     Document Type: Article

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