Isolation of a cDNA from tomato coding for an unregulated, cytosolic chorismate mutase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 917-922

  Eberhard, Jenny ^a   Bischoff, Markus ^a   Raesecke, Hanns R ^a   Amrhein, Nikolaus ^a   Schmid, Jürg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chorismate mutase; cytosolic isozyme; phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthesis; shikimate pathway; tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0030198530     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00019479     Document Type: Article

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